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NOT  HYPNOTISM, 


BUT  SUGGESTION 


A   Lesson  in 
SOUL    CULTURE 


—BY- 
HENRY     HARRISON     BROWN, 

Author  of  "  How  to  Control  Fate  through  Suggestion,"  "Man's  Greatest 

Discovery,"  "Self-Healing  through  Suggestion,"  "  Dollars  Want  Me," 

etc.,    and  Editor  of  NOW. 


So  shall  some  Thought  of  mine  yet  encircle  earth, 
And  puff  away  thy  crumbling  altars,  Jove. 

— Lowell. 

Logic  and  Sermons  never  convince, 

The  damp  of  night  drives  deeper  into  my  Soul. 

— Walt  Whitman. 

A  man  for  success  must  have  ideas,  must  obey  ideas,  or  he 
might  as  well  be  the  horse  he  rides  on.  Of  no  use  are  the 
men  who  study  to  do  exactly  as  was  done  before,  who  never 
understand  that  today  is  a  new  day. — Emerson. 


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PROEM. 


YOU! 

Were  you  to  learn  that  in  a  certain  vault  was  untold  treas- 
ure, and  that,  could  you  find  the  KEY,  it  would  be  yours, 
what  would  you  do? 

Did  you  know  that  beneath  your  acres  lie  valuable  mines 
of  precious  ore  and  only  a  certain  form  of  dynamite  would 
rift  the  hills  and  expose  it,  what  would  you  do? 
Did  some  expert  convince  you  that  wells  of  oil  lie  under 
your  field  and  only  a  certain  drill  would  bore  to  it,  what 
would  you  do? 

Did  you  ascertain  that  a  certain  book  held  all  the  informa- 
tion to  make  you  wise  in  your  dealings  with  men;  that  it 
would  make  each  waking  hour  happy  and  each  sleeping  one 
peaceful,  and  that  only  by  a  great  sacrifice  could  you  obtain 
it,  what  would  you  do? 

You  would  sacrifice  all  you  at  present  possessed,  for  you 
would  know  that,  possessing  these,  millions  more  would 
be  yours. 

You  possess  now  all  these  treasures.  You  are  able  to  pay 
for  their  revelation.  Will  you? 

I. 

I  possess  the  Power  that  will  bring  the  realization  of  your 

possession. 

It  is  the  only  Power  that  can  give  this  to  you. 

All  that  gold  is  yours.     I  have  the  KEY. 

All  those  mines  are  yours.     I  have  the  POWDER. 

All  those  wells  are  yours.     I  have  the  DRILL. 

All  that  information  is  yours.     I  have  the  BOOK. 

It  is  yours  by  birthright.     You  did  not  know  it.     It  lies 

deep  WITHIN.     Knowledge  is   POWER.     It  unlocks  the 

treasure.     That   Knowledge  so  long  sought  is  found.     Its 

name  is  WISDOM.  That  KEY,  that  POWDER,  that  DRILL, 

that  BOOK,  is  SUGGESTION. 


160615 


/  hold  the  KEY 
To  Health^  Success,  and  Happiness. 

Study  me  and  find  it. 
Meditation  will  reveal  it. 

Apply  it  in  Living, 

Then  all  THINGS  desired 

are  thine. 


INTRODUCTION. 


Phenomena,  under  the  name  "Hypnotism,"  draw 
increased  and  deserved  attention.  For  nearly  one 
hundred  and  fifty  years  it  has  been  known  and,  un- 
der-various names,  produced  for  amusement,  mysti- 
fying, study,  or  physical  benefit.  It  has  been  best 
known  as  "Mesmerism"  and  "Animal  Magnetism." 
It  now  has  a  literature  of  its  own  and  occupies  much 
attention  in  the  secular  press.  Its  friends  are  in 
every  walk  of  life.  Schools  and  mail  courses  of 
study  are  plentiful.  It  is  destined  to  be  a  most 
powerful  factor  in  the  therapeutic,  educational  and 
reformatory  growth  of  the  new  century.  That  these 
phenomena  exist  is  now  no  longer  doubted.  Their 
importance  is  admitted  by  all  who  give  the  subject 
even  a  casual  study. 

The  author  believes  that  the  principle  involved  in 
this  phenomena  is  the  most  important  man  has  yet 
discovered,  that  it  is  destined  to  produce  greater 
changes  in  man  and  his  environments  than  any  pre- 
vious discovery.  Believing  this,  he  is  devoting  his 
energies  in  assisting  the  development  of  a  proper 
understanding  of  this  Principle  in  popular  mind. 
He  believes  it  to  be  the  one  Thought  needed  to  bring 
in  the  age  foretold  by  prophet  and  priest. 
His  intention  is  to  explain  these  phenomena,  to  show 
their  harmony  with  all  other  perceptions  of  Truth, 
to  make  from  them  a  basis,  through  philosophy  for 
the  soon-to-be,  "Science  of  Life"  and  an  "Art  of 
Living."  Knowledge  that  is  easily  obtained  from 
this  so  long  neglected  field  of  research,  will  enable 


8  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

any  person  to  attain  this  Art.  The  Law  that  under- 
lies these  phenomena  is  more  practical  than  the 
multiplication  table. 

But  the  author  wishes  to  say,  first  of  all,  that  he 
uses  the  word  "Hypnotism"  under  a  protest.  The 
name  is  a  misnomer.  It  comes  from  "hypnosis/' 
meaning  sleep.  Sleep  is  not  necessary  to  the  phe- 
nomena nor  to  receive  benefits  from  the  use.  In 
but  few  experiments  is  sleep  necessary.  Besides, 
the  word  carries  with  it  the  misconceptions  of  a  false 
theory.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  "hypnotic  power" 
or  "hypnotic  phenomena."  The  phenomena  occur, 
but  they  are  not  hypnotic.  They  are  not  the  effect 
of  a  power  that  the  operator  possesses,  but  are  the 
effect  of  the  subject's  own  mind.  All  the  phenomena 
produced  by  an  "hypnotic"  subject  are  as  honest 
as  those  produced  by  him  in  school,  home  or  work- 
shop and  are  as  natural  and  normal  as  those — are 
really  identical  in  origin.  The  phenomena  exist  as 
a  part  of  the  daily  life  of  all  persons.  In  a  subject, 
they  are  artificially  reproduced  and  exaggerated. 
The  only  power  the  operator  has  is  that  which 
teacher,  merchant,  preacher,  mother  or  friend  pos- 
sesses over  others.  It  is  what,  in  ordinary  speech, 
is  termed  "Influence."  The  only  difference  between 
the  "Hypnotic  Professor"  and  men  in  other  walks 
of  life  is  that  he  understands  and  uses  consciously 
the  same  power  that  other  men  in  other  phases  of 
life  use  unconsciously  and  instinctively.  These  phe- 
nomena contain  more  knowledge  within  them  for  the 
upbuilding  of  manhood  and  the  reformation  of  so- 
ciety than  can  be  obtained  from  all  phenomena  with 
which  physical  science  deals. 

It  is  the  object  of  this  book  to  remove  all  mystery 
from  Hypnotism,  to  cause  these  phenomena  to  be 
considered  as  natural  and  as  normal  as  the  functions 
of  every  day  labor  and,  by  so  doing,  to  prepare  mental 
conditions  for  a  clear  understanding  of  the  Principle 
of  Suggestion,  in  accord  with  which  all  phenomena 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  9 

of  life  occur,  and  to  prepare  the  way  for  its  applica- 
tion in  daily  life.  It  is  the  thought,  born  in  igno- 
rance of  Cause,  that  gives  birth  to  the  belief  that  hyp- 
notic phenomena  are  caused  by  one  person's  having 
the  will  of  another  in  thrall.  No  person  can  thus 
enslave  another.  No  person  ever  did  so  enslave. 
These  phenomena  are  the  work  of  the  individuals 
who  manifest  them. 

As  I  write  this  introduction,  there  comes  to  my  ex- 
change table  a  valued  journal  showing  that  its  other- 
wise very  intelligent  editor  has  still  this  misconcep- 
tion. He  says:  "We  are  individuals  and  refuse  to 
surrender  the  control  of  ourselves  or  our  mentality 
to  anyone."  When  one  shall  understand  what  Sug- 
gestion is,  he  will  see  that,  instead  of  a  surrender  of 
individuality,  it  is  a  development  of  individuality. 
It  places  him  in  full  control  of  himself.  Suggestion 
is  the  road  to  self-control.  It  is  only  putting  into 
practice  the  law  which  it  is  man's  province  to  bend 
to  his  Will,  the  law  of  Concentration. 

To  learn  our  powers  and  how  to  use  them,  is  the 
province  of  education.  There  is  no  other  way  equal 
to  a  knowledge  of  Suggestion.  The  end  of  this 
knowledge  is  self-control  and  self-control  is  the  acme 
of  character.  Those  who  oppose  hypnotism  do  so 
only  through  a  misunderstanding  of  the  law  of  Sug- 
gestion. "If  one  can  thus  destroy  another's  will," 
it  is  said,  "then  he  can  influence  to  evil  and  crime." 
This  I  deny  and  deal  with  it  at  some  length  in  this 
book. 

I  write  from  over  thirty  years'  experience  as  teacher, 
lecturer,  subject  and  operator,  and,  therefore,  as  an 
expert,  I  declare  that  man  has  found  no  law  of  so 
much  importance  to  his  well-being  as  that  explained 
in  this  book. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL.,  January,  1902. 


NOT    HYPNOTISM, 

BUT  SUGGESTION. 

The  Key  to  Wisdom,  the  Inlet  to  Power, 
And  the  road  to  Success,  are  all  found 
In  the  Principle  of  Suggestion. 

Troth  and  Truth  is  a  fixed  quantity.  Man  per- 
Unity.  ceives  but  does  not  create  Truth. 

Truth    and    the    Universe    are    Co- 
extensive. 

It  is  not  Truth  and  error;  it  is  only  more  or  less 
Truth.  The  Universe  is  One.  This  Universe  is 
divided,  by  my  Consciousness,  into  myself  and  that 
which  is  not  myself.  This  division  is  purely  a  men- 
tal one;  I  make  it  when  I  say,  "I  AM";  this  means 
there  is  a  manifestation  of  the  Universe  which  I 
am  not.  That  which  I  am  not  is  named  variously: 
God,  Energy,  Force,  Nature,  etc.  Names  cannot 
change  IT.  They  are  names,  and  names  are  symbols 
only  for  that  which  is.  I  am  in  the  Universe,  not 
a  portion  of  it,  but  I  am  a  manifestation  of  IT. 
Thus  my  recognition  of  Self  divides  the  Universe, 
to  my  consciousness,  into  what  I  call  "I,"  which  is 
the  Within,  and  what  I  call  "Not  I,"  which  is  the 
Without.  This  is  the  simplest  of  all  philosophy. 
It  is  as  simple  as  Cause  and  Effect. 

"I"  and  Between  the  "I"  and  that  which  is 
"Not  I."  not  "Not  I,"  lies  that  which  makes  a 
dividing  line  in  the  Universe,  between 
the  Absolute  and  the  Individual,  which  I  call  "I," 
namely  Sensation.  Consciousness  abides  in  the 
power  to  sense  that  which  is  the  Me,  and  distinguish 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  11 

it  from  the  Non-Me.  Sensation  is  differentiated  into 
five  special  senses.  By  means  of  these  senses,  I 
know  that  I  am  not  that  which  I  sense.  I  am  the 
"I"  which  senses.  Because  I  sense,  that  is  because 
I  feel,  I  think.  I  am  something  that  feels  and 
thinks.  What  is  this  "I"?  It  is  not  that  which 
is  felt  and  is  thought  about.  We  name  it  Ego,  Soul, 
Spirit,  Self.  This  is  simply  naming  the  "I  AM." 
It  names  but  does  not  explain.  Now  that  "I  AM," 
because  I  feel  and  think,  the  questions  rise:  Can  I 
feel  what  I  choose  to  feel?  Can  I  think  what  I  choose 
to  think?  It  is  with  these  questions  that  this  book 
deals.  If  I  can  thus  choose,  I  am  a  free  man.  If 
I  cannot,  I  am  a  slave. 

Power  of  Can  I  control  the  Non-Me  so  that  it 
Choice.  will  make  me  feel  and  think  as  I  choose? 

This  is  the  most  important  question 
man  has  ever  considered.  Is  he  an  instrument  in 
the  hands  of  the  Non-Me,  or  is  he  an  independent 
individuality  in  a  Universe  where  he  can  use,  at  will, 
the  forces  of  that  Universe?  Heretofore  the  answer 
has  been,  "No!"  But  the  twentieth  century  opens 
with  the  answer,  "Yes." 

Sensation.        How?    To  teach  "how,"  is  the  ob- 
ject of  this  book.  * 

Briefly  the  answer  is  this: — The  phenomena  called 
Hypnotic,  but  which  are  the  daily  phenomena  of 
Suggestion,  when  once  their  significance  is  known, 
contain  this  needed  knowledge.  To  understand  this 
significance,  we  must  look,  through  the  demonstra- 
tions of  science,  into  the  phenomena  of  sensation. 
Sensation  is  recognition  by  the  Ego  of  that  which 
is  without  itself.  Sensation  arises  from  contact  of 
the  Within  and  the  Without.  What  contacts?  To 
science,  all  is  motion.  The  Ego  is  a  form  of  motion. 
The  Without  is  a  form  of  motion.  All  contact  is 

*  NOTE: — This  "How"  is  still  further  elucidated  in  my 
pamphlet— "How  to  Control  Fate  through  Suggestion." 


12  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

through  radiation  from  centers.  These  radiations 
are  called,  when  passing  through  space,  Vibrations. 
All  contact  is  that  of  some  vibration  upon  the  Ego. 
The  body  does  not  feel;  it  is  only  the  channel  through 
which  vibrations  impinge  upon  the  Ego.  A  body 
which  the  Ego  has  left  does  not  feel.  Dead  bodies 
have  no  sensation.  Vibrations  differ  in  speed.  Pitch 
is  the  better  word.  Vibrations  of  different  pitch 
produce  different  sensations.  We  call  one  sensation 
taste,  one  odor,  one  sound,  one  light,  but  these  are 
only  differentiations  of  the  one  sense  of  touch. 

Emotion.  The  beginning  of  consciousness  lies  in 
Feeling.  By  it  we  are  kept  in  touch 
with  Unity,  of  which  we  are  simply  a  manifestation. 
Unity  is  indivisible.  Thus  I,  the  Ego,  am  a  neces- 
sity to  Unity,  for  without  an  Ego  there  would  be 
neither  sensation  nor  thought.  Individuality  is 
manifest  in  Unity,  through  Thought,  born  of  Feeling. 
Whatever  I  sense,  be  it  pleasure  or  pain,  joy  or  sor- 
row, beauty  or  goodness,  music  or  love,  is  produced 
in  me  as  a  response  of  the  Ego  to  some  vibration. 
This  response  we  call  an  emotion.  "E"  means  out; 
thus  we  have  an  out-motion  to  meet  the  "in"-motion; 
an  in-volution  and  an  evolution.  When  the  Ego 
does  not  respond  to  the  Vibration,  as  in  very  young 
children;  in  the  blind,  and  in  the  deaf;  there  is  in 
these  neither  light  nor  sound.  But  the  vibrations 
from  without,  which  would  cause  these  sensatinos, 
were  they  received,  still  exist.  Thus  does  the  in- 
dividual make  his  own  world.  The  blind  lives  in  a 
world  of  darkness,  and  the  deaf  in  a  soundless  one. 

Key  to  Can  the  individual  who  sees  and  hears 

Wisdom.  refuse  to  see  and  hear?  This  is  a  ques- 
tion of  more  import  than  wireless  tele- 
graphy or  aerial  navigation.  When  one  does  so 
choose,  or  so  refuse,  he  will  see  and  hear  only  the 
pleasant.  Happiness  is  ever  his  who  shall  achieve 
this  power  of  conscious  choice.  To  know  how  to 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  13 

choose  and  how  to  live  in  the  world  of  chosen  sensa- 
tion, is  the  knowledge  above  all  other  knowledge. 
To  possess  it  is  to  have  the  Key  to  Wisdom.  This 
it  is  to  be  Self-Controlled, — to  be  the  Master  of  Fate. 
This  is  to  create  each  day  the  conditions  we  wish. 
That  it  can  be  done,  thousands  today,  in  their  self- 
created  conditions  of  health  and  prosperity,  testify. 
Conditions  may  be  as  consciously  determined  and 
wrought  out  as  are  the  statues  and  paintings  in  the 
galleries.  This  knowledge  comes  as  all  other  comes 
— from  Mother  Nature  herself;  from  observing  the 
phenomena  of  daily  life. 

Responsibility          Each  person  now,  in  ignorance 

of  Choice.  of  his  power  and  of  the  laws  of 

mind  (and  foremost  among  them 

is  the  Law  of  Suggestion),  creates  his  body  and  his 
surroundings  without  being  conscious  of  so  doing, 
from  his  choice.  Each  day's  conditions  are  the 
result  of  choices  made  without  knowledge  of  results. 
These  are  common  expressions:  "If  I  had  known 
more  last  year;"  "Had  I  chosen  differently;"  "Had 
I  forgiven;"  "Had  I  bought  or  sold,  how  different 
my  life  would  be."  And  one  is  condemned  for  his 
intemperance,  his  crime,  his  poverty,  or  his  igno- 
rance, "because  he  could  do  better,"  thus  implying 
a  belief,  at  least  in  a  limited  power  of  choice,  and  a 
limited  responsibility  for  the  conditions  of  life. 
Every  one  realizes  that  his  life  would  be  very  dif- 
ferent today  had  he  made  a  different  decision  on  cer- 
tain matters  a  year  ago.  Thus  do  we  shape  destiny 
according  to  our  intelligence.  This  proves  the  point 
I  wish  to  emphasize:  each  one,  whether  he  is  con- 
scious of  it  or  not,  creates  his  own  conditions  of  life. 
Seeing  this  clearly  in  a  few  cases,  we  are  compelled 
to  say  that  it  is  the  same  in  cases  where  we  cannot 
understand  the  law.  The  cause  of  conditions  is 
located  within.  Each  person  has  this  power  of 
choice.  When  he  knows  how  to  choose,  and  will 
so  choose,  he  need  not  be  unhappy,  sick,  or  poor. 


14  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

Where  Lies         We  have  now  only  to  apply  the 
Choice.  wisdom  the  facts  of  daily  life  teach 

us.  All  choice  comes  from  the  one 
Law  of  Suggestion.  Where  lies  choice?  Not  in  sen- 
sation, the  primal  recognition  of  the  Ego — of  Self— 
and  of  that  which  is  not  Self;  it  lies  in  sensation  when, 
by  that  portion  of  the  nervous  system  which  the 
Ego  created  for  that  purpose,  it  is  transformed  into 
thought.  It  is  in  Thought  that  men  differ.  All 
feel  alike.  Sensation  is  one.  The  vibrations  that 
make  light  in  one  cannot  make  sound  in  another. 
The  sound  once  made,  each  person  thinks  his  own 
thought,  born  of  it.  The  car  whistle  causes  the 
engineer  and  the  traveler,  the  boy  and  the  farmer, 
to  think  differently.  In  the  wife  of  the  engineer 
it  may  awaken  emotions  of  fear;  in  that  of  the  pas- 
senger, emotions  of  joy.  Yet  the  sensation,  caused 
by  vibration  on  the  ear,  is  one  in  all.  But  over 
sensations  presides  the  individual  Ego,  and  it  de- 
cides how  sensations  shall  affect  him.  He  is  king 
in  his  domain, — the  world  of  Thought.  "The  king- 
dom of  God  is  within  YOU!"  said  Jesus.  Thus  is 
Thought  the  creator  of  that  real  world  in  which  the 
Ego  lives.  Thought-created  are  all  the  conditions 
of  life. 

UnliKeness.  Universal  Energy  is  One.  It  mani- 
fests as  Life.  It  is  One  in  all  men. 
Life  manifests  first  as  Sensation  which  is  the  same 
in  all.  But  sensation  is  transmuted  into  thought, 
where  all  are  unlike;  they  become  individuals.  The 
Indian,  the  Californian,  the  Mexican  and  the  China- 
man have  all  had  the  same  sun,  soil,  wind  and  water 
in  California.  How  different  the  thought  each  has 
used.  How  different  the  conditions  of  the  four. 
Where  lies  the  creative  power? 

Results  of          "Whatsoever  a  man  thinketh  in  hit 

ThinKing.  heart,   so   is   he,"   says   an   ancient 

book.     So   the    Dhammapada,    said 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  V    ~  >* 


to  be  the  word  of  Buddha,  says:  " Whatsoever  a 
man  thinks,  the  result  follows  him  like  a  shadow." 
Thinking  determines  the  effect  of  natural  conditions 
upon  the  man.  Thinking  determines  how  vibra- 
tions from  the  Without  shall  affect  the  Ego.  There- 
fore, no  matter  what  the  sensation,  man  has  the 
power  to  say  of  it:  "It  is  good  thus  to  feel." 

Fate  Can  Be  "All  is  Good!"  This  Affirmation 
Controlled.  will  change  pain  to  pleasure;  grief 

to  joy;  despair  to  peace.  When 
feeling  badly,  dear  reader,  did  you  ever  have  some 
friend  or  some  unexpected  good  come  to  you  and 
thus  change  your  thought  and  send  all  bad  condi- 
tions from  you?  Once  from  your  mind,  they  went 
from  your  body.  Did  you  ever  have  a  pain  and 
have  it  leave  when  your  attention  was  turned  to 
something  else?  A  common  case  is  the  departure 
of  a  toothache  when  the  dentist's  tools  are  seen. 
This  is  the  principle  of  hypnotism  and  all  there  is  in 
the  schools  of  Mental  Healing.  By  Suggestion,  one 
is  caused  to  think  of  something  else  and,  when  pain 
is  forgotten,  it  does  not  exist.  The  strongest  Sug- 
gestion for  the  time  rules  the  individual.  Can  we 
think  pain,  can  we  think  health,  whenever  we  choose? 
Yes. 

Each  person  has  power,  when  he  knows  himself,  to 
say  what  he  shall  feel  and  think.  Otherwise,  he  is 
a  leaf  in  an  infinite  stream  called  "Fate;"  a  machine 
wrought  upon  by  some  outside  power.  Within  a 
certain  limit,  this  power  of  choice  and  control  is 
admitted.  We  now  remove  all  limitations,  realizing 
that  they  are  self-imposed.  Limitations  are  the 
direct  results  of  ignorance.  Man  has  the  power  of 
Self-Control.  All  one  needs  is  to  learn  to  use  this 
power  in  the  same  way  he  has  learned  to  us« 
other  forms  of  power,  viz: — by  experience. 

That  one  may  realize  this  power,  it  is  necessary  for 
him  intelligently  and  consciously  to  apply  the  Law 


16  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

of  Suggestion.  He  ignorantly  and  instinctively  ap- 
plies it  all  the  time.  He  should  use  it  intelligently 
and  manifest  the  same  self-control  the  platform 
subject  does  when  he  sleeps  at  the  word  of  the 
operator. 

A  Definition.        What  is  Suggestion?      And  what 

is  A  Suggestion? 

SUGGESTION  IS  THAT  WHICH  CAUSES  A 
SENSATION  OR  A  THOUGHT.  A  SUGGES- 
TION IS  ANYTHING  USED  WITH  AN  UNDER- 
STANDING OF  ITS  POWER  TO  PRODUCE  A 
CERTAIN  MENTAL  RESULT  WHEN  ACCEPT- 
ED BY  ANOTHER  PERSON.  Suggestion  is  the 
objective  side  of  life.  The  subjective  is  Affirma- 
tion. An  Affirmation  is  a  statement  of  Truth.  Each 
person  is  controlled  by  his  convictions  of  Truth. 
He  cannot  get  away  from  these  convictions.  On 
arising  in  the  morning,  he  sees  a  fog.  He  looks 
at  the  thermometer  and  sees  it  20  above  zero.  These 
are  Suggestions  and  he  says:  "It  is  cold."  This 
decision  is  an  Affirmation  born  of  the  Suggestion. 
The  Suggestion  produced  a  feeling  which  was  trans- 
muted in  the  brain  to  the  Affirmation  of  Truth, 
"It  is  cold."  But  the  rugged  school-boy  in  New 
England  would  say  as  he  saw  the  thermometer, 
"Oh,  a  jolly  morning!"  and  off  he  would  go  for  a 
December  skate.  Each  makes  his  own  world.  The 
same  Suggestion  awakens  different  thoughts  in  each ; 
different  emotions  in  each. 

Suggestion  being  anything  from  without  coming  to 
the  consciousness,  it  follows  that,  when  a  person 
acquires  power  over  himself  so  that  he  ignores  un- 
pleasant Suggestions  and  receives  only  those  he 
wishes,  he  has  acquired  the  power  of  making  his  life 
what  he  chooses  it  to  be.  He  then  rules  the  "King- 
dom" within.  Like  a  king,  he  receives  from  without 
only  that  which  he  chooses  and  that  which  comes 
with  the  credentials  of  pleasure  and  health. 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  17 

Possession.  Subjectively,  as  a  manifestation  of 
Unity,  man  is  potential  power  in 
every  direction.  In  the  objective  life  he  is  unfold- 
ing that  which  he  is  in  the  subjective.  Being  all 
potential  power,  why  should  he  not  affirm  that 
power?  Why  limit  the  manifestation  of  the  sub- 
jective "I  AM"  to  the  little  power  he  has  heretofore 
manifested?  There  is  no  reason,  except  habit  Let 
him  say  henceforth:—  "I  possess,  and,  since,  by 
thinking  I  have  power  to  direct  the  manifestations 
of  the  subjective  life  I  am,  I  affirm  that  I  am  power 
to  do  that  which  I  desire  to  do!"  He  who  will  so 
affirm,  will  do. 

Power  of  This  Affirmation  is  Suggestion  trans- 
1  nought.  muted  into  Auto-Suggestion.  This 
is  the  power  by  which  the  conscious 
man  through  desire  and  reason,  controls  the  mani- 
festations of  his  life,—  when  he  wills.  Thought  is 
power  It  is  the  power,  the  only  power,  the  Indi- 
vidual uses  to  direct  the  Absolute  power  in  which 
ie  lives  and  moves  as  an  Ego,  an  individualized 
being.* 

In  Self-Suggestion,  Auto-Suggestion  or  Affirmation 
(for  they  are   all   one)  lies  the  Diamond  Drill,  the 

7'  and  the  B°°k  Promised  in  th* 


Self-  Through  the  use  of  Affirmation,  life 

Assertion.        can  be  made  to  one's  desires,  because 

all   conditions,   whether   of  good   or 

ill,  come  from  Affirmation.     It  is  the  only  power 

any  person  possesses.     It  is  the  power  the  hypnotist 

uses.     Self-assertion  is  the  key  to  character     Affir- 

mation, to  lift  one  from  conditions  not  desirable 

must  rest  upon  that  arch  of  character  whose  key- 

i  is  Self-assertion.     Without  that  mental  char- 

*  The  reader  is  referred  to  the  author's  work,   "Man's  Great 
est  Discovery,"  25c,  for  a  discussion  of  this  fact 


18  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

acteristic,  there  can  be  no  success  in  any  direction. 
Therefore  this  Affirmation  includes  all  others — "I 
AM!"  Affirmations  that  follow  this,  that  mean  the 
victory  of  Self  over  Fate  are,  "I  Can"  and  "I  Do!" 
The  Will  that  uses  these  is  a  cultivated  and  con- 
centrated one.  Will  that  is  scattered  over  several 
Affirmations  at  the  same  time  means  constant  failure. 

The  "Open  We  have  now  reached  the  word  of 
Sesame."  power,  have  found  the  "Sesame"  to 

the  hidden  treasure  of  the  Soul.  It 
is  the  word,  CONCENTRATION;  one  thought  at  a 
time.  Pay  attention  to  what  you  are  thinking. 
Yes!  this  is  the  recognized  key  to  success.  But  it 
is  also  the  key  to  the  failures  in  health,  business  and 
happiness.  Worry,  anxiety,  fear,  grief,  doubt,  are 
all  evidences  of  concentration.  The  question  turns 
on  the  kind  of  thoughts  for  concentration.  Concen- 
tration upon  the  wrong  thoughts  produces  all  the 
evil.  Evil  is  the  evidence  of  an  uncontrolled  mind. 
The  business  man  in  business  concentration  has 
awakened  genii  that  make  him  a  slave.  Such  con- 
centration is  not  the  key  to  Peace  and  Victory. 
Concentration  is  the  "Open  Sesame,"  but  the  treasure 
is  not  his  until  he  learns  not  only  to  open  but  also 
to  close  the  cave,  not  only  to  release  the  genii,  but 
to  imprison  them  at  will.  The  opposite  of  Concen- 
tration is  as  important  as  concentration.  This  is  the 
"Letting  Go,"  the  Giving  up,  the  Relaxing,  the  Chang- 
ing, at  will,  the  thought  upon  which  one  has  concen- 
trated. This  is  the  secret  of  success.  This  is  the 
power  the  hypnotic  subject  possesses.  The  subject 
has  learned  that,  which  when  learned  and  practiced 
by  any  one,  will  relieve  him  of  worry,  fear,  pain  and 
disease,  and  will  open  to  him,  while  in  the  flesh, 
the  door  to  Paradise. 

All  the  possibility  of  this  lies  in  those  phenomena 
which  have  been  used,  heretofore,  generally  to  amuse 
or  at  best  by  physician  to  relieve  pain.  The 


BUT  SUGGESTION. 


19 


application  of  the  Law  of  Suggestion  is  as  limit- 
less as  human  experience. 

Philosopher's  Voluntary  Concentration  upon  a 
Stone.  chosen  thought  is  the  long  sought 

"Philosopher's  Stone."  He  who 
has  acquired  it,  is  Master.  It  is  the  secret  of  the 
power  of  hypnotic  subject,  of  "Christian  Scientist," 
and  "Hindoo  Fakir;"  it  underlies  all  occult  phenom- 
ena of  every  name  and  is  the  secret  of  the  success  of 
men  in  every  rank  and  walk  of  life.  Is  it  worth  at- 
taining? Is  it  worth  the  time  and  effort?  Can  you 
afford  to  learn  it?  These  are  not  questions  for  a 
wise  man  to  consider.  Can  you  afford  not  to  have 
it?  Remember,  all  possible  power  lies  within  the 
Ego,  awaiting  expression.  The  only  safe  ways  of 
manifestation  are  those  directed  by  Self.  The  more 
faith  in  Self,  the  more  power.  They  who  have  in- 
fluenced the  world  have  been  those  who  had  faith 
in  themselves.  Self-Assertion  led  to  CONCEN- 
TRATION. The  Affirmation  of  success  has  ever 
been,  "I  CAN!" 

Here  is  the  quatrain  worth  memorizing  for  the  Phil- 
osophy of  Life  it  contains.  It  is  from  Mrs.  Helen 
Wilmans : 

"He  who  dares  assert  the  I, 

May  calmly  wait, 

While  hurrying  Fate, 
Meets  his  demand  with  sure  Supply." 

Outside  Emerson's  essay  on  "Self  Reliance,"  no 
better  words  than  these  have  been  uttered.  To 
that  essay  I  recommend  the  reader  as  we  turn  to 
another  phase  of  the  subject. 

Prof.  Gates'  "But  what  has  this  to  do  with 
Evidence.  Hypnotism?"  will  again  be  asked. 

Everything.  The  phenomena  un- 
der that  name  demonstrate  the  truth  of  all  this 
philosophy.  My  words  are  as  true,  based  upon  these 
phenomena,  as  are  those  in  the  works  of  physics  in 


20  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

our  schools.  Like  the  physical  scientist,  I  go  to 
nature  for  my  facts.  Telepathy  has  as  clearly 
demonstrated  Thought  to  be  Force,  as  have  the  ex- 
periments in  the  laboratory  demonstrated  electricity 
to  be  a  mode  of  motion.  Prof.  Elmer  Gates  has 
demonstrated  by  chemistry  that  thoughts  of  envy, 
jealousy,  hate,  anger  and  all  others  we  call  evil,  pro- 
duce a  poison  in  the  system  which  ultimately  causes 
disease.  Thought  controls  bodily  conditions.  This 
again  demonstrates  the  efficacy  of  Mental  Healing. 
Study  the  stage  performance.  Learn  how  to  do  it 
and  then  repeat  it  in  your  parlor,  go  farther  and 
experiment  upon  yourself.  Remove  sensation  from 
your  body.  Pierce  your  arm  with  a  needle  without 
pain.  Watch  the  patient  in  the  hospital  as  he  sub- 
mits to  a  surgical  operation  with  only  Suggestion  as 
an  anesthetic  and  thus  learn  the  meaning  of  Sug- 
gestion in  daily  life.  If  the  boy  on  the  stage,  the 
patient  in  the  hospital,  can  at  a  word  concentrate 
upon  the  thought  of  painlessness,  what  is  impossible 
through  intelligent  use  of  concentration  in  daily 
life?  The  boy  on  the  stage  throws  away  the  cold 
coin,  saying,  "Hot."  Later  you  can  see  the  blister 
upon  his  hand.  Disease  is  created  in  the  same  way 
by  thinking  of  it.  Have  not  these  phenomena  a 
meaning  for  each  person?  Have  they  for  you? 
What  is  the  power  that  produces  such  marvelous 
results?  Merely  the  thought,  the  Affirmation,  of 
the  person:  "It  does  not  pain  me;"  "I  do  not  feel 
it;"  "It  is  hot;"  "It  burns  me." 

Primal  Man*  Thoughts  are  equal  in  power.  They 
ifestation.  are  all  from  one  source.  The  dif- 

ference lies  in  the  individual's  power 
of  concentration.  All  power  comes  from  the  sub- 
conscious. Whether  it  shall  be  directed  upon  one 
thought  or  diffused  over  many,  is  for  each  individual 
to  determine,  and  that  determination  controls  the 
conditions  of  this  life. 
Remember,  Suggestion  is,  WHATEVER  CAUSES 


BUT  SUGGESTION. 


21 


AN  EMOTION  OR  A  THOUGHT;  it  will  then  be 
seen  that  it  is  an  everpresent  factor  in  life.  No 
intellect  is  possible  where  Suggestion  is  not.  No 
conscious  manifestation  of  mind  until  Suggestion 
calls  its  latent  faculties  into  expression.  The  primal 
manifestation  of  consciousness  is  a  recognition  of 
Suggestion.  Affirmation  is  a  primal  manifestation 
of  self-consciousness.  This  is  why  Affirmations,  or; 
what  is  the  same  thing,  convictions  of  truth,  govern 
life.  Truth  is  the  Affirmation  of  existence  as  inter- 
preted by  the  individual  who  affirms. 
Each  individual  is  therefore  subject  to  Suggestions 
from  without,  until  he  shall  learn,  by  experience, 
his  power  of  choice.  The  power  of  choice  can  be 
developed  only  through  doing,  and  this  doing  we 
call  experience.  Each  one  has  the  power  of  Affirma- 
tion; and  in  the  power  of  choosing  Affirmations, 
lies  the  power  of  creating  Destiny  as  desired.  Destiny 
ceases  where  choice  begins.  Desire,  through  choice, 
becomes  master  of  life. 

Objective  All  things  center  in  the  simple  fact 
Life.  of  sensation — I  FEEL — and  its  cor- 

ollary,—BECAUSE  I  FEEL,  I 
THINK.  Now  affirm,  would  you  be  master, — "I 
have  learned  what  to  think  that  I  may  feel  what  I 
choose,  and  I  have  learned  not  to  feel  or  think  that 
which  I  do  not  wish  to  feel  or  think."  In  this  de- 
velopment is  seen  the  necessity  of  the  objective  life. 
It  awakens  the  Ego  into  a  consciousness  of  itself. 
Without  the  objective,  no  manifestation  of  life;  there 
would  be  only  the  possibility  of  life.  Thus  are  the 
subjective  and  the  objective  one.  They  cannot  be 
separated.  And  without  argument,  it  is  here  affirm- 
ed that  they  are  one  forever. 

It  has  already  been  asserted  that  each  person  has 
the  power  of  choosing  and  of  ignoring  Suggestions. 
One  can  at  will  determine  his  life.  At  will  is  used 
understandingly.  These  two  words  are  mighty. 
When  this  statement  is  seen  to  be  truth,  it  will  also 


22  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

be  seen  that  this  is  the  most  important  fact  man- 
kind has  yet  found.  Its  significance  cannot  be 
measured  for  a  century.  This  is  the  statement:— 
WHEN  MAN  KNOWS  HIS  POWER,  HE  WILL 
NEVER  MORE  BE  THE  SLAVE  OF  CIRCUM- 
STANCES. HE  WILL  MOULD  CIRCUMSTAN- 
CES TO  HIS  WILL. 

Demonstra-  This  is  demonstrated  by  the  sim- 

tioii.  pie    phenomenon    of    the    hypno- 

tist's suggestion  to  his  subjects,— 
"You  cannot  open  your  hand."  The  hand  remains 
fast  because  the  Suggestion,  taken  as  truth,  becomes 
in  him  an  Affirmation.  He  says:  "I  cannot  open 
my  hand."  His  saying  so  makes  it  impossible  for 
him  to  open  the  hand  until  he  shall  say:  "I  can." 
This  demonstrates  the  power  of  concentration.  The 
subject  concentrates  his  mind  upon  the  thought, 
"I  can't  open  my  hand."  Since  Thought  is  power, 
Thought  holds  his  hand  fast.  He  simply  concen- 
trates upon  the  thought  and  lets  Thought,  as  a 
vibration  from  the  Infinite  One,  have  its  way  with 
his  hand.  It  is  a  scientific  demonstration  of  the 
Affirmation,  "As  a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart,  so 
is  he."  It  also  demonstrates  something  else  equally 
as  important,  that  which  makes  the  Principles  un- 
derlying the  fact  practical:— A  MAN  CAN  THINK 
WHATEVER  HE  WISHES,  AND  CAN  MAKE 
THAT  THOUGHT  A  REALITY  IN  THE  OB- 
JECTIVE LIFE. 

Source  of  This  is  the  key  to  human  destiny. 
Power.  This  is  the  most  important  fact 

man  has  ever  discovered.  It  means 
the  evolution  of  all  that  now  is  into  something  be- 
yond the  dream  of  poet  or  the  vision  of  seer.  Each 
man  can  affirm  and  be  that  which  he  wishes  to  be. 
All  he  has  to  do  is  to  follow  the  lead  of  the  hypnotic 
subject  and  choose,  at  will,  the  view  of  Truth  that 
is  to  him  most  desirous,  and  then  hold  the  chosen 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  23 

view  in  concentrated  attention  as  the  subject  does — 
i.  e.,  he  is  to  let  the  Suggestion  control  him.  The  power 
of  Thought  is  limitless. 

All  power  comes  from  the  sub-conscious.  This  sub- 
conscious is  the  Human  Soul,  the  Ego.  It  does 
nothing  that  is  not  willed  by  the  Conscious  mind. 
The  Sub-conscious  is  to  the  Conscious  man  the  only 
fountain  of  power,  intelligence,  and  love.  The  con- 
scious man  controls  the  expression  of  this  fountain 
by  his  Will.  To  learn  how  to  Will  is  the  most  im- 
portant thing  in  education.  When  one  has  so 
trained  his  Will  that  it  will  sieze  upon  a  chosen 
thought  with  the  same  tenacity  that  it  seizes  in  ordi- 
nary men  upon  a  thought  born  of  chance  Sugges- 
tion, and  will  hold  that  chosen  thought  as  long  and 
as  persistently  as  does  he  whose  body  fails  under  the 
unwelcome  strain  of  worry,  anxiety,  fear,  sorrow, 
remorse,  and  kindred  conditions,  then  is  that  indi- 
vidual Self-Centered,  Self-Poised,  Self-Controlled. 
He  will  then  hold  closely  thoughts  of  pleasure,  suc- 
cess and  health  as  realities;  be  the  master  of  condi- 
tions. This  is  the  condition  temporarily  of  the 
hypnotic  subject.  It  can  be  the  permanent  condi- 
tion in  life,  and  will  be  his  who  chooses  determinedly 
what  Affirmation  to  make  and  what  sensations  shall 
be  born  of  the  Suggestions  that  come  to  him  from 
the  objective  life.  The  hypnotic  subject  has  this 
power;  he  can  accept  or  reject  Suggestions.  When 
the  operator  says  "hot/'  he  can  laugh  or  can  say 
"cold;"  and  what  he  says  is  so  to  him.  He  has  then, 
and  ever  has,  his  choice.  He  chooses  to  accept  the 
Suggestion  of  operator  as  Truth,  and  so  choosing, 
he  affirms  that  this  dollar  is  hot  and  the  thought 
produces  the  sensation  of  burning,  and  will,  if  per- 
sisted in,  raise  a  blister. 

The  Law  This  is  the  real,  constant  condition  of 
of  Life.  every  man.  He  accepts  the  Sugges- 

tions of  the  weather,  business,  social 
life,   of   economic,     political,    bodily    and    financial 


24  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

conditions  and  says  "Yes"  to  them  and  affirms  that  he 
is  cold  or  hot,  prosperous  or  unlucky,  well  or  ill,  happy 
or  miserable,  lonesome  or  contented,  that  times  are 
good  or  hard,  and  they  are  as  he  affirms.  Life  is 
to  him  only  a  list  of  Affirmations  born  in  the  Sug- 
gestions of  the  external  world  or  from  experiences 
which,  by  Affirmation,  become  again  objective  reali- 
ties. These  conditions  are  produced  in  him  just 
as  they  are  produced  in  the  hypnotic  subject.  The 
Law  is  one,  just  as  the  flash  of  the  electric  spark  in 
the  laboratory  is  one  with  the  lightning's  flash. 
But  there  is  this  difference.  The  flash  in  the  labora- 
tory is  under  control  of  an  intelligent  Will  and  does 
a  predetermined  work.  That  in  the  bolt  from  the 
cloud  has  no  conscious  Will  to  guide  it  but  follows 
the  law  of  the  Absolute,  and  it  may  destroy.  So 
with  Thought  in  the  ordinary  affairs  of  life.  It  works 
its  way  without  being  understood  and  directed;  it 
tears  down  as  well  as  builds  up.  When  one  shall 
learn  to  choose  and  to  direct,  as  the  subject  on  the 
platform  has  learned  to  do,  then  all  Thought  will  be 
chosen  to  build  up  and  to  make  happy. 
Suggestion  itself  is  merely  a  blind  vibration.  Feel- 
ing is  a  blind,  unintelligent  response;  but  Affirma- 
tion is  the  act  of  a  soul,  is  the  choice  of  an  individ- 
ual. To  the  extent  that  one  exercises  consciously 
this  power  of  choice  in  his  Affirmations,  does  he  de- 
velop the  one  feature  that  distinguishes  him  from 
the  brute  and  which  makes  him  man — and  that  is 
the  power  of  Self-control. 

Self-  That  the  subject  has  done  this  for 

Protection.  one  hour;  that  one  man  has;  proves 
it  possible  to  every  one.  As  the  sub- 
ject can,  by  his  Will,  make  his  body  insensible  to  the 
prick  of  a  pin,  so  may  every  -person  become  insen- 
sible to  pain.  As  one  person  can  master,  through 
necessity,  a  condition  of  weakness  by  an  Affirma- 
tion, as  in  case  of  a  mother  when  sick  but  recovering 
when  her  child  is  injured,  so  may  all  become  immune 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  25 

to  disease  by  refusing  to  receive  a  Suggestion  that 
will  result  in  disease. 

One's  body  is  his  castle.  No  vibration  can  enter 
it  unless  it  comes  by  neglect  on  his  part  or  by  an 
invitation.  Vibrations  affect  only  body;  they  have 
no  power  over  the  Soul.  Nothing  touches  the  Soul 
that  is  willed  out  by  the  conscious  man.  When  any- 
thing is  felt,  he  should  refuse  to  think  of  it  and  should 
call  the  Will  into  activity  and  hold  a  pleasant  thought 
instead.  Then  has  the  vibration  done  its  work  of 
creating  happiness.  Allow  it  to  awaken  a  thought 
of  pain,  and  allow  the  Will  to  hold  that  thought  of 
pain  and  disease-  results. 

The  Unity  To  attain  this  condition  of  power, 
of  Power.  study  the  conditions  necessary  for 

the  subject  to  receive  his  Sugges- 
tions and  cultivate  them  in  yourself  until  you  can 
suggest  and  affirm  that  which  you  desire.  All  vibra- 
tions are  merely  vibrations  until,  through  sensa- 
tion, they  are  converted  into  Thought,  just  as  vibra- 
tions of  light  that  do  not  reach  the  eye  are  only 
vibrations.  As  we  can  close  the  eye  to  light  vibra- 
tions, so  we  can  close  sensation  to  those  which  pro- 
duce pain  or  sorrow;  then  they  are  not.  Thus  is 
life  made  one  continual  round  of  peace.  Study  these 
phenomena  labeled  "Hypnotic"  just  as  the  phe- 
nomena of  lightning  have  been  studied,  and  the  re- 
sults will  be,  to  him  who  studies  and  demonstrates, 
similar  to  those  that  have  followed  the  wake  of 
"Spiritualism,"  "Christian,"  "Divine,"  and  "Men- 
tal" Science  and  the  various  schools  of  magnetic 
healing  and  metaphysics.  All  these  are  demon- 
strating some  of  the  infinite  possibilities,  that  lie  in 
Suggestion  and  its  counterpart,  Affirmation. 

Not  Operator's  Whatever  may  have  been  the 
Will.  past  opinion,  or  whatever  be 

that  of  many  now  to  the  con- 
trary, it  is  not  the  Will  of  the  operator  that  produces 


26  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

the  phenomena  of  hypnotism.  It  is  the  concen- 
trated Will  of  the  subject.  This  fact  is  one  that  will, 
when  its  significance  is  understood,  revolutionize 
all  thinking  and  living  and  lift  this  study,  now 
ignored  by  the  cultured,  into  the  first  place  in  the 
Philosophy  and  the  Art  of  Living. 
The  only  Principle  concerned  in  the  phenomena  is 
the  constant  one  of  Concentration;  fixing  the  WILL 
upon  an  Affirmation  that  is  the  result  of  a  chosen 
Suggestion.  Three  words  form  the  Shibboleth  of 
the  New  Thought  (which  means  the  New  Civiliza- 
tion), viz:  SUGGESTION,  AFFIRMATION,  and 
CONCENTRATION.  Understanding  these,  forms 
the  true  Science  of  Mind',  properly  using  them,  con- 
stitutes the  Art  of  Living. 

Power  of         The  study  of  Suggestion  removes  from 
Will.  the  mind  all  fear  of  evil  results  from 

the  control  of  one  mind  over  another, 
for  such  control  is  impossible.  The  Will  can  be  used 
only  by  the  individual  upon  himself.  This  is  an  im- 
portant fact  in  this  study.  The  person  of  the  culti- 
vated Will,  the  person  of  Concentration,  always  has 
the  advantage  of  the  one  of  diffused  Will.  Leaders, 
commanders,  bosses,  masters,  operators  in  Sugges- 
tion, all  owe  their  position  to  the  fact  that  they  use 
their  Will  upon  themselves  and  give  the  Suggestions 
that  will  produce,  when  accepted  by  those  of  less 
concentration,  the  desired  mental  conditions.  It  is 
not  a  question  of  "can"  or  "cannot"  in  the  battle 
of  life;  it  is  the  "will"  and  "will  not."  The  health- 
ful and  successful  WILL  health  and  success.  The 
others  do  not  use  what  they  possess  in  like  propor- 
tion. All  have  equal  power  to  do.  It  is  the  dif- 
ference between  doing  and  not  doing. 
The  subject  has  learned  to  choose  and  to  will  him- 
self into  acceptance  of  the  Suggestion  for  the  time 
being,  knowing  that  he  can,  at  any  time,  will  himself 
not  to  accept  it.  Having  accepted  it,  it  rules  him. 
He  has  learned  to  lay  it  aside  at  will. 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  27 

Untrained        But  accepted  Suggestions  in  the  busi- 
Will.  ness  man  become  worry.     Why?    Be- 

cause he  is  in  the  condition  of  every 
person  who  does  not  develop  latent  power.  He  has 
never  brought  his  Will  into  obedience  to  his  thought. 
When  once  his  Will  has  fastened  to  an  Affirmation, 
it  does  not  readily  let  go  and  take  another  because 
he  has,  by  neglect,  taught  it  to  cling  until,  by  some 
external  Suggestion,  he  is  compelled  to  change  his 
Affirmation.  I  trust  that  this  is  so  clearly  seen  that 
no  reader  of  this  book  will  hereafter  claim  that  one 
person  acts  under  the  will  of  another,  but  that  each 
reader  will  affirm  that  every  person  acts  that  which 
he  wills  to  act.  He  has  willed  either  to  neglect  train- 
ing his  Will  or  has  willed  to  cultivate  it.  The  man 
who  is,  under  the  circumstances,  obliged  to  obey  the 
mandate  of  another  is  no  more  under  the  Will  of  that 
other  than  is  the  boy  who  does  not  wish  to  learn  to 
skate  under  the  Will  of  him  who,  by  physical  power, 
forces  him  to  put  on  the  skates;  he  learns  obedience 
under  fear;  he  wills  obedience  through  choice  of  one 
of  two  unpleasant  conditions. 

Hypnotism  This  fact  understood,  away  goes  the 
Innocuous.  -fear  of  hypnotism  and  all  belief  that 
one  person  can  hypnotize  another  to 
commit  crime.  This  is  a  groundless  fear,  a  fear  that 
arises  in  ignorance.  The  editor  of  the  Suggester  and 
Thinker  in  an  editorial  in  his  magazine,  says  of 
this  belief  in  the  evil  of  hypnotism:  "It  originated 
in  fancy  alone  and  belongs  to  the  age  of  superstition, 
darkness  and  witchcraft  and  cannot  exist  today 
upon  any  legitimate  grounds." 
Every  Suggestion  that  is  repugnant  to  a  person  is 
by  him  rejected.  This  principle  of  Self-Protection 
is  the  most  deep-seated  of  any  in  our  lives.  Ever 
alert  to  protect  against  danger  are  all  the  instincts 
of  man.  In  this  Art  of  Suggestion  the  reason  is  never 
appealed  to.  Should  one  attempt  to  reason  with  the 
subject  to  induce  him  to  accept  a  Suggestion,  every 


28  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

condition  of  acceptance  would  be  destroyed.  Per- 
fect tranquility  of  mind  is  the  necessity  of  hypnosis. 
This  tranquility  can  be  obtained  only  through  con- 
sent of  the  subject.  Consequently,  whenever  a  Sug- 
gestion given  antagonizes  the  Will  or  Conscience  of 
the  subject,  he  passes  out  of  the  condition  of  the  sub- 
ject, and  is  under  the  control  of  some  Auto-Sugges- 
tion. It  is  utterly  impossible  for  one  person  to  sug- 
gest to  another  the  commission  of  an  act  which  he 
would  not  do  without  the  Suggestion. 
This  fact  is  well  known  to  every  practitioner  in  Sug- 
gestion and  to  all  careful  investigators.  Each  per- 
son controls  his  own  life  at  all  times.  He  does  noth- 
ing that  he  does  not  will  to  do.  The  only  way  one 
can  be  brought  to  do  that  which  he  has  willed  against 
is  not  by  using  hypnosis,  but  by  using  Suggestion 
in  persuasion,  argument  or  command.  Either  of 
these  is  powerless  in  hypnosis. 

Safety  of  In  hypnosis,  the  frontal  brain  of  the 
Hypnosis.  subject  is,  to  a  greater  or  less  degree, 
inactive,  and  that  portion  of  the  brain, 
— the  cerebellum — most  closely  connected  with  the 
Ego,  is  most  active.  When  conversing  with  a  per- 
son in  hypnosis,  that  is,  with  a  somnambule,  it  is 
with  the  Ego,  through  the  sympathetic  nervous  sys- 
tem, that  all  our  conversation  is  carried  on.  One 
converses  thus  with  the  spirit  of  the  man.  He  talks 
to  the  seat  of  moral  consciousness.  Conscience  is 
supreme.  Any  Suggestion  given  to  the  Ego  that 
runs  counter  to  conscience  is  immediately  repelled. 
An  antagonistic  Suggestion  insisted  upon  will  awaken 
the  subject.  A  person  in  hypnosis  is  in  the  state 
most  safe  from  evil  Suggestions,  for  here  all  the  ex- 
ternal glamour  is  removed  and  only  the  enormity 
of  such  a  Suggestion  is  present  to  the  soul.  Here 
lie  the  great  possibilities  of  this  Art  in  the  redemp- 
tion of  man.  From  this  source  come  the  cures  in  all 
the  fields  of  healing.  The  Soul  is  stimulated  on  the 
way  it  desires  to  go.  The  operator,  the  teacher  and 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  20 

the  healer  are  helping  the  evolution  of  the  Ego  by 
opening  to  it  the  possibilities  of  the  objective  life. 
Illustrations  of  this  fact  frequently  occur  in  my 
classes.  I  had  a  fine  subject  and,  causing  him  to 
see  a  lizard,  told  him  to  take  it  up.  He  would  not. 
I  insisted.  This  caused  him  to  awaken  with  a  start. 
Another  fine  fellow  was  asleep.  I  suggested  that, 
as  we  were  on  the  street,  we  go  in  a  saloon  and  get 
a  glass  of  beer.  "No,  sir!  I  don't  drink  beer." 
"But  come,  you  must/'  He  awoke  with  a  start. 
"What  awakened  you?"  I  asked.  "I  don't  know, 
but  some  one  hit  me,"  was  the  reply. 

Self-Hypnosis  Now  that  Suggestion  is  being 

Degrees  of.  made  the  excuse  for  wrong  do- 

ing, when  the  press  is  telling 
of  persons  marrying,  stealing  and  committing  all  sorts 
of  evil  because  they  were  hypnotized,  it  is  well  to 
dwell  upon  the  impossibility  of  this,  so  that  all  may 
feel  hereafter  that  it  offers  no  excuse  for  any  evil. 
None  can  hide  under  this  cloak.  All  these  reported 
cases,  if  they  are  facts,  are  cases  of  Auto-Sugges- 
tion— of  Self-Hypnotism.  This  is  the  condition  in 
which  all  persons  are  whenever  an  abnormal  condi- 
tion is  encouraged.  If  a  woman  thought  a  man  was 
hypnotizing  her  and  concentrated  her  mind  upon 
that  thought,  she  would  pass  into  this  condition 
through  self-hypnotism.  The  press,  by  telling  these 
stories,  creates  these  imagined  conditions  in  suscep- 
tible persons.  Past  education  has  developed  a  feel- 
ing of  non-responsibility  and  of  fear  in  the  individ- 
ual, which  prepares  him  to  receive  these  Sugges- 
tions from  the  press  and  convert  them  into  Auto- 
Suggestions  and  thus  give  them  control  over  his  life. 
Here  is  the  great  evil  of  press  reports  of  crime. 
From  this  self  weakness,  comes  the  present  reliance 
upon  Authority.  No  person  of  self-reliance  will 
claim  to  be  hypnotized  to  do  a  foolish  or  an  evil 
thing.  The  weak  and  the  silly,  the  very  ones  that 
have  not  concentration  enough  to  be  hypnotized  by 


30  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

an  operator,  are  the  ones  constantly  susceptible  to 
self-hypnotism.  They  are  constantly  receiving  Sug- 
gestions from  the  crowd  they  are  in.  They  thus  be- 
come the  tool  of  the  fashions,  fads  and  follies  of  the 
day.  They  are  the  ones  who  need  most  to  place 
themselves  under  the  care  of  a  good  operator  and, 
through  his  instructions,  learn  to  concentrate  and  to 
protect  themselves  from  the  consequences  of  their 
willing  but  ignorant  acceptance  of  Suggestions. 
Involuntary  Suggestion,  involuntary  concentration, 
involuntary  and  unconscious  choice,  are  to  be  avoided. 
When  one  has  learned  the  Art  of  Suggestion,  he 
knows  too  well  the  power  of  a  Suggestion  of  evil; 
for,  whether  it  is  accepted  by  the  subject  or  not,  if 
he  has  given  it  with  a  desire  to  work  evil,  that  evil 
as  surely  follows  him  as  does  his  shadow.  No  per- 
son is  so  chary  of  Suggestions  which  are  not  of  good, 
as  one  who  has  practiced  the  Art. 

Press  The  daily  press  is  scattering  broadcast 
Libels.  the  seeds  of  this  belief  and  fear  in  stories 
born  in  the  brain  of  the  reporter.  They 
are  his  solution  of  facts.  They  are  never  sustained 
by  the  opinions  of  experts.  When  the  reported 
cases  of  evil  are  investigated,  they  are  not  sustained 
by  evidence. 

It  has  been  reported  that  hypnotism  has  been  made 
the  plea  of  extenuation  in  courts.  Never  has  a 
criminal  been  condemned,  or  a  person  acquitted,  in 
this  country  upon  the  plea  of  hypnotism.  Never 
has  any  judge  considered  such  a  plea.  I  will  only 
cite  one  typical  case.  It  goes  its  rounds  in  the  press 
several  times  a  year.  Concerning  it,  I  give  as  high 
an  authority  as  exists  upon  the  matter.  Chief  Jus- 
tice Albert  H.  Horton,  of  the  Kansas  Supreme  Court, 
in  an  address  reported  in  the  State  Journal  (Topeka) , 
for  April  the  6th,  1895,  says:  "In  affirming  the  con- 
viction of  Gray,  no  new  doctrine  was  announced, 
no  new  rule  of  evidence  established.  Hypnotism  was 
not  considered  nor  ruled  upon  in  any  way.  The 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  31 

reports  are  therefore  wholly  unfounded."  But  Judge 
Horton's  statement  is  ignored,  and  the  lie  of  a  re- 
porter is  made  the  basis  for  creating  fear  by  teacher, 
preacher  and  editor. 

Evil  Advcr-  But  more  injurious  than  the  press 

tisements.  reports  are  some  of  the  advertise- 

ments of  the  teachers  and  schools 
where  the  words,  "secret  power,"  "subtle  power," 
and  others  are  used  to  convey  the  idea  that  they 
have  something  mysterious  and  hidden  and  that  the 
possession  of  this  something  will  enable  its  possessor 
to  influence  any  person  to  do  his  will,  and  will  enable 
a  graduate  of  their  school  to  win  everything  he  wishes 
in  the  battle  of  life.  These  claims  are  false.  They 
mislead.  NO  such  power  exists.  All  persons  may 
cultivate  and  attain  all  that  is  claimed  for  "Hypno- 
tism" and  "Personal  Magnetism"  by  a  simple  appli- 
cation of  this  Law  of  Suggestion. 
The  Soul  of  man  is  perfect.  All  Souls  are  alike. 
Each  contains  a  spark  of  Infinity.  All  that  any  one 
needs  is  to  let  the  god  in  him  (the  good  in  him)  mani- 
fest. Suggestion  opens  the  way.  There  is  no  patent 
right  held  by  any  person,  or  any  class  of  persons, 
upon  any  method  of  this  unfoldment.  No  method 
is  universal.  No  limitations  are  possible.  All  is 
one  Principle.  The  Principle  of  Suggestion  is  limit- 
less and  will  make  and  adapt  its  method  to  the  time 
and  place.  Once  understand  the  Law  of  Sugges- 
tion, the  Principle  of  Concentration,  and  you  have 
entered  the  Holy  of  Holies;  have  the  key  to  all  the 
ancient  mysteries;  have  knowledge  of  the  way  to  the 
Occult  Powers  of  the  Soul. 

'  'Protection"  against  evil  influences  is  claimed  by 
some  of  these  schools  and  teachers.  Especially  is 
this  promised  by  those  teachers  who  gather  the  press 
reports  of  the  evils  of  hypnotism  with  which  they 
induce  people  to  become  their  pupils.  "Protection" 
from  what?  The  Ego  is  all  powerful.  The  only  evil 
is  ignorance.  The  only  safeguard  is  knowledge. 


32  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

Knowledge  of  what?  Of  Self.  No  person  can  be 
protected  from  his  thoughts.  He  must  protect 
himself.  All  the  possible  evils  there  are  in  Sugges- 
tion are  those  that  lie  in  thinking.  A  person  must 
think.  Now  think  no  evil  and  none  is  possible. 

Personal  Re-  Thought  is  creative.  It  creates 
sponsibility.  every  condition  in  life.  What 
shall  he  think?  is  the  question  that 
concerns  him.  What  are  the  results  of  thoughts 
and  how  are  thoughts  controlled?  should  be  his  ques- 
tions. No  power,  no  statute  law  can  protect  man 
from  himself.  Neither  can  they  change  him  or  cause 
him  to  think  to  order.  As  long  as  he  fears,  he  must 
suffer  the  effects  of  fear;  as  long  as  he  thinks  pain, 
he  must  suffer  pain;  as  long  as  he  thinks  he  must  be 
protected,  he  will  be  weak  and  will  not  protect  him- 
self from  self-created  evils. 

Each  person  is  responsible  to  himself  for  the  thoughts 
he  encourages.  He  cannot  escape  the  results  of  his 
own  thinking.  If  he  will  not  keep  harmful  thoughts, 
"tramp  thoughts,"  from  his  mind,  he  must  take  the 
consequences  of  such  company. 

The  School  of  Suggestion  is  the  University  of  the 
Soul.  All  other  schools  are  of  the  intellect.  This 
school  opens  the  door  through  which  to  reach  the 
Ego  itself.  None  other  is  equal  to  it. 

Misrepre-  Telepathy  is  now  brought  in  as  a 

sentation.  factor  of  fear  and  people  are  warn- 

ed in  advertisements  to  go  to 
certain  teachers  of  hypnotism  that  they  may  learn 
to  protect  themselves  from  the  evil  thoughts  of 
others.  Promises  are  made  that  "this  subtle  power 
of  thought"  will  be  taught  them  so  that  they  may 
succeed  in  their  selfish  purposes.  "This  mysterious 
silent  power,"  one  advertisement  reads.  I  affirm 
positively  that  it  is  more  difficult  to  influence  one 
silently  to  do  what  is  not  in  harmony  with  his  own 
thought  than  it  is  by  oral  Suggestion.  A  Suggestion 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  33 

is  at  all  times  a  Suggestion.  Its  effect  is  the 
same  whether  given  orally  or  telepathically.  Those 
that  do  not  conflict  with  desire,  will  or  conscience, 
will  be  readily  received  when  silently  given.  It  then 
does  not  meet  with  the  intellectual  limitations  that 
are  often  put  upon  it  when  conveyed  orally.  But 
positively  I  repeat:  no  Suggestion  repugnant  to  a 
person  will  be  received  telepathically.  It  falls  as 
unnoticed,  as  harmless,  as  buckshot  on  an  iron-clad. 

Thought  When  a  thought  is  sent  that  meets 
Harmony,  with  acceptance  in  the  person  to  whom 
directed,  then  it  will,  if  conditions  ad- 
here, be  responded  to  in  action.  A  case  in  illustra- 
tion:— A  friend  and  I  were  riding  in  the  street-car 
and,  as  we  were  about  to  pass  the  home  of  a  lady 
friend,  my  companion  remarked:  "I  wonder  if  Mrs. 
B.  will  see  us?"  I  thought  it  not  likely.  But,  as 
the  car  stopped  at  the  crossing,  she  came  to  the  win- 
dow and  recognized  us.  Later  we  inquired  why  she 
came  and  she  said:  " While  standing  overseeing  my 
dinner,  I  felt  to  go  to  the  window."  Our  thought 
had  reached  her  and,  being  a  pleasant  one,  and  her 
mind  not  being  concentrated  upon  anything  in  par- 
ticular, she  was  ready  to  respond.  Had  her  mind 
been  occupied  with  some  necessary  thought,  or  had 
our  thought  been  unpleasant,  she  would  not  have 
responded. 

Authorities.  Modern  operators  in  Hypnotism 
are  unanimous  in  the  opinion  that 
no  evils  result  from  it.  Earlier  authorities  think 
it  "possible,"  but  give  no  instances.  Later  ones  do 
not  think  it  possible.  T.  J.  Hudson,  the  author  of 
"The  Law  of  Psychic  Phenomena,"  says  in  a  maga- 
zine article:  "That  hypnotism  and  its  chief  hand- 
maiden, Suggestion,  have  been  proven  to  be  an  un- 
alloyed blessing  to  millions  of  the  human  race,  can- 
not be  successfully  controverted."  Hudson  Tut  tie, 
as  good  an  authority  as  there  is  in  the  ranks  of 


34  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

Spiritualism,  says  of  the  trance  which  he  calls  "The 
Hypnotic  State":  "There  is  nothing  in  the  trance 
which  affects  the  physical  senses;  on  the  contrary, 
it  gives  them  rest  similar  to  normal  sleep."  Amid 
all  the  European  and  American  authorities  that  I 
have  been  able  to  find,  none  reports  any  instance  of 
evil  results.  American  operators  who  have  hypno- 
tized thousands  and  have  seen  some  persons  used  as 
subjects  for  many  years  are  most  positive  as  to  its 
harmlessness.  The  best  authorities  are  those  who, 
from  the  platform,  give  exhibitions,  for  they  meet  all 
classes  and  have  the  most  extended  practice.  I  have 
never  conversed  with  one  whose  experience  has  not 
been  that  of  my  own,  which  is,  that  we  cannot,  cause 
a  subject  to  do  that  which  he  wills  not  to  do  nor 
that  which  is  morally  repellent  to  him. 

Testimonies.  Professor  A.  E.  Carpenter,  who 
probably  has  had  as  large  an  ex- 
perience in  this  line  as  any  living  operator,  told  me 
twenty  years  ago  that  such  was  his  experience. 
Professor  Caldwell,  one  of  the  well  known  operators 
twenty  years  ago,  told  me  the  same.  Professor  Con- 
net  so  taught  his  pupils.  His  law  was:  "You  can- 
not cause  a  pupil  to  work  against  his  will,  against 
his  conscience,  nor  to  injure  his  person  or  property." 
H.  L.  Flint,  as  well  known  upon  the  hypnotic  stage 
as  any  person  in  the  Mississippi  Valley,  in  a  late 
interview  reported  in  the  press,  said,  in  reply  to  the 
question  as  to  whether  or  not  a  man  can  be  hypno- 
tized to  commit  crime,  "I  should  say  uncondition- 
ally, 'No!  When  under  hypnotic  influence,  the  sub- 
ject's moral  sensibilities  are  more  acute  than  in  the 
normal  state  and  often,  when  in  hypnosis,  he  cannot 
be  made  to  do  those  little  peccadillos  that  he  will 
do  when  normal.  It  is  correct  to  say  that  he  will 
never  do  anything  that  he  will  not  do  at  any  other 
time,  as  far  as  his  moral  nature  is  concerned.'  " 
Thomas  L.  Adkin,  dean  of  the  New  York  Institute 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  says  in  an  article  in 


BUT  SUGGESTION. 


35 


Practical  Psychology: — "I  have  hypnotized  in  public 
and  in  private  about  15,000  people.  I  have  seen 
fully  25,000  people  under  hypnosis  in  the  past  four- 
teen years.  I  have  never  seen  the  slightest  harmful 
results.  Anyone  who  has  had  any  practical  experi- 
ence with  the  subject  is  well  aware  that  no  harm  can 
be  done  by  hypnotic  Suggestion.  .  .  .1  was  a  subject 
myself  for  five  years;  was  hypnotized  thousands  of 
times  and,  if  any  harmful  results  were  produced,  I 
am  not  aware  of  it ....  I  know  a  subject  who  has  been 
hypnotized  twenty  or  thirty  times  every  night  by 
different  public  hypnotists  for  the  past  twenty-five 
years,  and  he  is  just  as  sound  mentally  and  physi- 
cally as  he  ever  was ....  To  hypnotize  a  man',  you 
ask  him  to  think  a  certain  way;  or,  in  other, words, 
ask  him  to  concentrate  his  mind  upon  a  certain  sub- 
ject. Now,  then,  if  it  does  not  injure  one  to  think, 
it  does  not  injure  one  to  be  hypnotized." 
This  is  the  testimony  of  experts  and  will  close  the 
case  with  every  reader  of  this  book. 

Self-  Another   phase   of  Suggestion,   in- 

Suggestioii.  tensifying  the  position  I  have  al- 
ready taken,  is  that  reported  of 
several  who  have  acquired  a  development  of  Auto- 
Suggestion,  so  that,  without  operator,  they  can  throw 
themselves  at  will  into  all  the  conditions  they  have 
seen  or  heard  of  subjects  doing.  The  papers  have 
recently  told  of  a  man  who  will  permit  his  flesh  to 
be  pierced  without  feeling  pain.  Any  person  can 
do  this  when  he  has  overcome  the  fear  of  pain.  Many 
of  my  students  do  it.  By  Self-Suggestion,  they  can 
produce  any  chosen  phenomenon  by  simply  thinking, 
"It  is  so!"  thus  demonstrating  that  it  is  the  subject, 
not  the  operator,  that  does  the  work. 

This  power,  when  developed  and  rightly  applied,  lifts 
one  out  of  any  undesirable  condition  and  enables 
him  to  make  life  each  day,  in  body  and  in  estate,  to 
his  order;  for  he  so  first  makes  it  in  thought  and 


36  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

concentrates  upon  it  and  what  is  so  made  and  held 
must  manifest  objectively.     This  is  a  Universal  law  :— 

The  One  Law.  I  AM  THAT  WHICH  I  THINK 
I  AM.  Thought  IS  power.  We 
are  so  to  realize  this  as  to  build  to  desire  and  not  to 
let  Thought  run  riot  as  we  now  do.  Where  now  it 
is  harmful,  we  shall  Will  that  it  bless. 

Post-  Very  convincing  of  the  truth  of  our 

Hypnotic.  theory,  is  the  phenomenon  called 
"Post-Hypnotic."  While  in  hypnosis,  a 
Suggestion  is  given  the  subject  that  he  will,  at  a  cer- 
tain future  time,  do  a  certain  thing.  This  also, 
through  misunderstanding,  has  given  rise  to  fears 
so  that  the  great  lessons  to  be  learned  from  it  are 
not  perceived.  For  illustration: — A  young  man 
while  asleep  in  my  class  was  told  that  when  he  awoke 
he  would  find  an  unnamed  article  which  the  gentle- 
man who  gave  the  Suggestion  had  hidden.  The 
young  man  awoke,  took  part  in  the  exercises  of  the 
class  for  over  an  hour.  Suddenly  he  went  to  a  lady 
and  asked  her  for  the  nickel  she  had.  "What  nickel?" 
Looking  very  stupid,  he  said,  "I  don't  know.  I  only 
felt  to  ask  you."  She  gave  him  the  nickel  which 
the  gentleman  had  previously  given  her. 

A  Deeper          Post-Hypnotic  Suggestions  cannot  be 
Lesson.  carried  out  on  the  plane  of  the  intelli- 

gence or  the  conscience,  of  the  maker, 
for  the  intelligence  and  character  of  the  subject  are 
the  ever-present  factors  with  which  he  deals.  It 
is  impossible  to  execute  a  post-hypnotic  Suggestion 
which  conflicts  with  the  intelligence,  prejudices,  will 
or  conscience  of  the  subject.  But  a  deeper  lesson 
is  here.  No  good  thought  is  ever  dropped  into  a 
mind  that  does  not  remain  there  to  influence  future 
conduct.  The  words  of  the  teacher,  the  admonition 
of  the  mother,  the  advice  of  the  father,  the  loving 
greeting  of  a  friend,  all  fall  into  the  subconscious 


BUT  SUGGESTION. 


37 


storehouse  to  influence  future  conduct.  Let  no  per- 
son be  discouraged  because  it  seems  the  efforts  for 
good  are  lost.  No  word  that  is  upward  tending  is 
ever  lost  because  the  tendencies  of  humanity  are  up- 
ward. Each  person  is  an  unfolding  soul  and  the 
test  of  unfoldment  is  virtue.  The  desires  are  for 
goodness;  therefore  each  good  thought  is  a  seed- 
thought  of  power  sown  in  the  soul.  Sleeping  or 
waking,  words  of  love  or  truth  react  upon  the  Ego 
and  bring  forth  fruit.  "My  word  shall  not  return 
to  me  void,"  said  the  old  prophet.  By  the  use  of 
Post-Hypnotic  Suggestion,  every  latent  faculty  of 
the  mind  can  be  stimulated.  Because  of  this,  it  is 
one  of  the  most  potent  and  successful  methods  of 
education.  The  retention  by  the  mind  of  Sugges- 
tions given  it,  and  the  ability  to  intensify  this  im- 
pression by  first  rendering  the  intellect  non-resistant 
by  repose,  offer  the  teacher  his  opportunity  by  mak- 
ing to  his  pupils  Suggestions  in  the  line  of  the  ideal, 
such  as  is  found  is  no  other  system  of  education. 

Thought  Suggestions  given  in  sleep  are  retained. 
Seeds.  Like  seeds  in  the  ground  awaiting 

spring,  rains  and  sun,  they  lie  in  the 
subconscious,  ready  to  spring  into  activity  at  the 
first  opportunity.  This  is  the  reason  why  Mental 
Healing  is  so  successful.  This  explains  the  cures  by 
Suggestive  Therapeutics.  Post-Hypnotic  Sugges- 
tion is  the  best  method  to  cure  all  such  vices  as  in- 
temperance, profanity,  wony,  fear  and  licentious- 
ness. All  life,  health  and  power  within  the  Soul  lie 
open  to  Suggestions  given  in  sleep.  To  utilize  this 
knowledge  with  children  will  hasten  the  "New  Day." 
The  healing  power  of  Suggestion  during  sleep  is  well 
known  to  practitioners  of  Suggestive  Therapeutics. 
Its  possibilities  in  the  cure  of  habits  are  beginning 
to  be  known.  The  mother  has,  in  the  Law  of  Sug- 
gestion, power  to  wield  for  the  intellectual  and  moral 
development  of  her  child  while  it  lies  sleeping.  By 
its  use,  she  can  then  sow  in  the  sub-consciousness  of 


38  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

her  child  the  germ-thoughts  of  any  study,  can  cor- 
rect any  habit,  can  awaken  any  slumbering  faculty 
and  can  lead  it  in  the  way  of  her  ideal.  She  has  only 
to  use  this  Art  to  make  her  home  an  Eden. 

Incidents.  A  young  man,  one  of  my  subjects,  was 
complaining  that  he  could  not  perform 
his  problems  in  mathematics.  When  he  was  asleep, 
I  suggested  to  him  that  he  was  now  in  the  Divine 
Mind  and  could  learn  and  master  the  Law  of  Num- 
bers and  that  he  would  do  so.  Before  he  awoke,  he 
solved  the  problems  and  had  no  further  trouble  in 
the  study.  Had  he  dreamed  this  out  in  his  sleep, 
it  would  have  been  a  somewhat  common  occurrence. 
He  did  in  hypnosis,  at  will,  only  what  others  are 
doing  without  the  knowledge  of  the  Law. 
I  asked  a  lady  to  go  to  sleep  and  find  a  lost  article. 
She  did  so.  Others  go  to  sleep  and  dream  of  finding 
lost  articles.  In  her  case,  advantage  was  taken  of 
the  Law  of  Suggestion  and  at  will  she  slept  and 
found.  A  young  man  said  that  he  was  trying  to 
invent  a  cretain  machine  that  puzzled  him.  I 
placed  him  in  Hypnosis  and  said:  "Now  you  are 
in  the  Divine  Mind  where  all  machines  lie.  Find 
that  which  you  wish.  If  it  is  possible,  you  can  find 
it."  In  a  few  minutes  he  said:  "How  simple  that 
is."  "Remember  it  when  you  are  awake,"  was  my 
command.  He  did  so;  it  was  a  success.  "A  dream," 
one  says.  Yes,  but  a  dream  induced  at  will.  A 
lady  was  puzzling  over  an  essay.  In  hypnosis  she 
found  and  on  awaking,  wrote  what  she  found.  A 
lady  was  to  take  part  in  a  concert  but  was  full  of 
fear.  In  hypnosis  I  suggested  that  she  was  confi- 
dent of  success  and  would,  in  the  joy  of  the  occa- 
sion, lose  all  fear.  She  enjoyed  the  evening.  This 
condition  can  be  readily  cultivated  so  that  one  can 
bring  from  the  subconscious,  at  will,  any  desired 
manifestation  of  Truth.  A  student  of  mine  suggested 
that  he  would  awaken  in  the  morning  with  the  ma- 
terial of  a  sketch  that  he  had  for  some  time  wished 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  39 

to  write.  The  morning  brought  the  sketch.  A  stu- 
dent who  had  never  written  a  poem  thought  that 
he  would  try  Suggestion.  Upon  retiring  at  night, 
he  concentrated  upon  the  affirmation:  "I  will 
awaken  and  write  a  poem  in  the  morning."  Earlier 
than  usual,  he  arose  and  the  poem  wrote  itself. 
Thus  will  a  knowledge  of  Suggestion  lead  the  Con- 
scious man  to  direct  the  manifestation  of  the  Ego 
in  his  daily  life. 

Occultism.  This  understanding  of  Suggestion  ex- 
plains the  phenomena  called  "oc- 
cult" and  "spiritual."  It  explains  the  wonders  of  the 
Hindoo  Fakir  and  Buddhist  priest,  of  Egyptian 
Hierophant  and  Grecian  Sybil,  of  Roman  Seer  and 
Mohammedan  Sheik,  of  Mediaeval  Occultist  and 
modern  evangelist,  of  medium  and  clairvoyant,  of 
Psychometrist  and  Hypnotic  subject,  of  Christian 
Science,  of  Mental  Science,  and  of  the  Magnetic 
Healer.  All  these  find,  in  Concentration  under  the 
Law  of  Suggestion,  their  power.  In  this  Law  and 
the  understanding  of  it,  lies  the  future  evolution  of 
man.  Some  idea  of  what  lies  within  the  possibili- 
ties of  Suggestion  may  be  obtained  from  the  con- 
sideration of  the  fact  that  the  two  greatest  reform 
movements  during  the  last  century,  if  not  for  several 
centuries,  arose  from  its  application,  namely:  "Mod- 
ern Spiritualism"  and  "Christian  Science." 

Spiritualism.  Andrew  Jackson  Davis,  more  than 
any  other  person,  is  responsible 
for  that  philosophy  which  has  ramified  into  so  many 
movements,  all  of  which  may  be  classified  as  branches 
of  the  New  Thought.  While  a  little  boy,  having 
never  read  through  a  single  book,  Davis  became  a 
hypnotic  subject  and  from  this  he  developed  into  a 
wonderful  teacher.  Through  the  hypnotic  trance, 
subconsciousness  was  awakened  and,  in  this  state,  he 
gave  the  lectures  published  under  the  title,  "Nature's 
Divine  Revelations." 


40  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

Davis  soon  grew  independent  of  his  operators  and 
developed  what  he  calls  the  "Superior  Condition,"  a 
better  name  than  the  phrase  now  in  common  use: 
"In  the  Silence." 

Christian  Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Eddy  was,  in  her 
Science.  early  career,  a  Spiritualist  Medium. 

Dr.  Quimby,  of  Maine,  had,  from  his 
studies  in  Suggestion  then  called  "Animal  Magnet- 
ism," discovered  that  disease  is  a  belief.  He  de- 
veloped a  system  of  mental  treatment.  Mrs.  Eddy, 
then  Mrs.  Baker,  was  a  patient  and  a  student  under 
Dr.  Quimby.  This  was  her  start.  To  the  philo- 
sophy of  Dr.  Quimby,  she  applied  an  original  Bibli- 
cal interpretation.  Rightly  does  she  claim  the  name 
of  "Christian  Science"  for  the  philosophy  and  Art 
founded  upon  her  interpretation  of  the  Bible.  But 
she  has  no  claim  to  originality  in  the  Principle  for 
the  beginnings  of  this  stream  were,  like  that  of 
Spiritualism,  in  the  spring  of  Suggestion. 
Such  movements,  resulting  in  such  blessing,  affect- 
ing every  avenue  of  modern  thought  and  activity, 
are  only  prophecies  of  what  shall  be  when  Sugges- 
tion is  generally  understood.  Enough  has  been 
accomplished  to  warrant  all  the  assertions  made  in 
this  book  of  its  future  use.  We  have  now  only  to 
learn  the  Law  and  its  mode  of  operation  and  then 
to  take  the  same  advantage  of  it  that  has  been  taken 
of  other  Laws,  to  make  living  a  Fine  Art. 

Life  and  Art.  To  live  conscious  of  one's  power; 
to  understand  the  principle  of 
Concentration  and  apply  it;  to  understand  the  Law 
of  Suggestion  and  make  it  a  servant  of  Will;  to 
affirm  each  day  that  which  is  desired  as  the  only 
reality; — this  it  is  to  be  an  artist  in  life.  To  all  who 
do  this,  Living  has  become  A  FINE  ART.  It  is 
the  object  of  this  book  to  help  its  readers  to  become 
such  artists.  The  whole  secret  lies  in  DOING. 
Many  read  New  Thought  literature  and  think  that, 


BUT  SUGGESTION. 


41 


as  the  schoolboy  attains  knowledge  of  letters  and 
memorizes  geographical  names,  they  can  attain  this 
power  of  self-control.  Not  so!  It  comes,  as  comes 
the  ability  of  the  artist  to  handle  the  chisel  and  ham- 
mer in  bringing  the  statue  from  the  marble;  as  comes 
the  power  of  the  architect  to  place  on  paper  the  struc- 
ture already  in  his  mind;  the  power  of  the  mechanic 
to  build  a  machine  that  he  sees  only  in  possibility; 
the  power  of  expression  that  enables  the  poet  to 
place  in  ever  living  words  the  bright  ideal  of  beauty 
that  haunts  him.  All  these  grasped  the  principles, 
first  intellectually,  then  they  practiced  until  they 
made  the  channel  within  themselves  for  Thought 
to  manifest  under  the  direction  of  their  Will.  When 
they  were  ready,  the  statue  carved  itself;  the  palace 
drew  its  own  design;  the  machine  built  itself;  the 
poem  forced  itself  into  expression.  The  way  had 
been  prepared  by  doing  at  it,  not  trying,  but  by 
doing  each  day  the  very  best  possible,  and  thus  each 
day  coming  nearer  to  the  real,  which  is  eternally 
within  the  mind. 

Materialized  The  piano  player  teaches  all  per- 

Will.  sons    how    to    build    a    nervous 

structure  to  order.  He  begins 
awkwardly  and  bunglingly  to  fumble  the  keys.  Each 
day  his  fingers  learn  better  to  obey  his  Will.  After 
a  long  practice,  they  have  learned  to  play  what  is 
in  the  mind.  They  find  the  keys  and  strike  them 
without  the  conscious  direction  of  the  player.  The 
Will  has  been  materialized  in  them;  the  nerve  cells 
are  thoughts  that  have,  by  conscious  direction,  been 
transformed  into  them.  After  the  nerves  have  thus 
been  reconstructed  under  the  direction  of  the  Will, 
the  player  forgets  his  fingers,  lets  them  do  the  me- 
chanical part,  while  he  plays  mentally  only.  He 
listens  to  the  internal  music  while  the  fingers  play. 
John  Fiske  says: — "This  result  is  possible  only  be- 
cause of  a  bodily  change  which  has  taken  place  in 
him.  Countless  molecular  alterations  have  been 


42  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

wrought  in  the  structure  of  sundry  nerves  and  mus- 
cles, especially  in  the  grey  matter  of  sundry  ganglia 
and  nerve  centers.  Every  ganglion  concerned  in 
the  needful  adjustment  of  eyes,  fingers,  wrists,  or  in 
the  repetitions  of  musical  sounds,  has  undergone  a 
change  more  or  less  profound.  It  is  enough  for  us 
to  know  there  is  such  a  registration  of  experiences." 
In  relation  to  this  "registration,"  he  says: — "Any 
creature's  ability  to  perceive  and  act  depends  upon 
the  registration  of  experiences  in  his  nerve  centers. 
It  is  either  individual  or  ancestral  experience  that 
is  thus  registered;  strictly  speaking,  it  is  both." 
Here  we  have  all  the  physiological  evidence  neces- 
sary to  demonstrate  scientifically  the  facts  of  mental 
healing  and  to  prove  our  theory  as  to  the  place  and 
power  of  Suggestion.  Experiences  register  them- 
selves in  brain  and  nerve  changes. 

Mastery  Each  Suggestion  affects  the  nerve 
of  Fate.  tissue.  It  builds  itself  into  bodily  ex- 

pression. The  body  is  the  material- 
ized experiences,  of  the  individual.  The  only  experi- 
ences are  those  of  thinking  and  feeling.  The  body 
is  therefore  materialized  feeling  and  thought.  This 
is  the  greatest  discovery  man  has  made  of  his  power 
over  Nature.  He  can,  by  the  conscious  use  of  his 
Will,  mold  her  into  the  semblance  of  his  own  ideal. 
He  does  now,  as  far  as  his  body  is  concerned,  mold 
her  unconsciously.  He  is  learning  consciously  to 
build  not  only  body  but  environment  to  his  iideal, 
through  the  use  of  his  Will.  Nature's  side  of  the 
expression  is  in  the  building  of  the  external  man,  the 
babe.  The  director  of  the  finer  forces  is  Suggestion. 
Man's  side  is  Auto-Suggestion,  or  the  better  word 
is  Affirmation.  We  have  found  in  this  word,  Affir- 
mation, the  Key  to  Power.  Science  found  it  for  us. 
But  she  never  opened  the  treasure-house.  Now 
the  key  is  placed  in  the  lock.  Will  you  turn  it  and 
possess?  In  this  book  are  the  necessary  directions. 
They  have  been  found  by  the  effects  of  Thought 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  43 

conditions  artificially  produced  by  Suggestion.  Ex- 
periments have  taught  us  how  to  become  receptive 
to  Suggestion.  Now  become  to  yourself  both  sub- 
ject and  suggestor.  You  have  learned  the  Law. 
All  you  need  now  is  practice.  Practice  leads,  through 
Demonstration,  to  Realization.  This  won,  you  are 
the  Master  of  Fate. 

The  Manifest  No  knowledge  is  superior  to  this. 
Ideal.  This  is  all  that  any  healer,  seer 

or  conqueror  ever  learned.  The 
pass-word  is  CONCENTRATION.  With  this  word, 
the  portals  of  sense  may  be  passed.  Its  word  of 
power  is  AFFIRMATION.  Its  bugle  call  is  SUG- 
GESTION. To  all  who  enlist  under  this  banner, 
there  is  nothing  but  victory.  Victory  means  Health, 
Success,  Prosperity  and  Blessedness.  The  Way: — 
AFFIRM  THE  IDEAL.  HOLD  TO  IT  THROUGH 
CONCENTRATION.  LET  THE  IDEAL  MANI- 
FEST. Faith  in  self  must  give  birth  to  the  Affirma- 
tion, I  AM!  The  end  is  Self-Control. 


FORMULAS  FOR  SELF-HYPNOTISM 

AFFIRMATIONS. 

The  benefit  of  this  book  lies  in  the  fact  that  it  has 
stimulated  you  to  right  thinking  and  right  living. 
To  think  and  to  live  rightly,  you  must  constantly 
practice  the  principle  of  Self-suggestion.  By  prac- 
tice, you  are  to  make  conditions  to  your  desire.  By 
CONSCIOUS  WILL,  you  are  to  master  Fate. 
If  you  find  it  difficult  to  hold  the  thought  silently, 
it  is  a  good  plan  to  talk  aloud  to  yourself.  Treat 
the  conscious  man  as  subject  and  the  "I"  as  oper- 
ator. Persist  until  you  yield  to  the  Affirmation  as 
the  subject  yields  to  the  command  of  operator.  Use 
these  thoughts  in  any  language  to  suit.  Remem- 
ber:— According  to  the  amount  of  Will  that  you  put 
into  your  thought  is  the  benefit  received.  There- 
fore, when  affirming,  throw  back  the  shoulders,  hold 
head  erect,  sit  or  stand  firm,  and  feel  the  spirit  of 
the  Affirmation,  then  relax  and  let  the  power  of  the 
Affirmation  manifest  in  you.  Use  your  own  name 
in  place  of  John  Smith. 

For  Pain,  say:— 

Now,  sir,  you  are  Life!  You  cannot  have  pain.  All 
pain  has  left  you.  Now  go  about  your  work.  At- 
tend to  your  business,  John  Smith,  and  I  will  attend 
to  mine.  I  (Mind)  built  this  body  and  I  will  restore 
it  when  you  let  me  alone. 

For  Nervous  Conditions:— 

Now,  sir,  sit  down  in  that  chair  and  relax.  Let  go! 
Let  go,  sir,  of  old  thoughts!  Let  go  of  your  body. 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  45 

Forget  you  have  one.  Imitate  the  baby,  the  cat 
and  the  dog  when  they  rest.  There  now,  you  feel 
better  already.  There,  sir,  how  much  relaxed  you 
are.  You  are  rested  already.  Now  keep  peace  in 
your  mind  and  go  to  work.  You  are  Peace. 

For  Insomnia: — 

During  the  day,  when  you  think  of  the  night,  say: 
"I  shall  sleep  well  tonight."  When  bedtime  comes, 
say:  "Oh,  how  sleepy  I  am.  I  already  yawn." 
Now  yawn,  whether  you  feel  to  or  not.  Keep  yawn- 
ing till  you  do  feel,  then  let  it  yawn  itself  and  con- 
tinue to  say,  "I'm  sleepy,"  till  you  lose  yourself  in 
sleep. 

For  any  Kind  of  Sichness  I—- 
NOW, John  Smith,  you  are  Spirit,  for  I  am  Spirit 
and  I  made  you.  Spirit  cannot  be  sick.  Therefore, 
this  condition  is  purely  a  mental  one  and  you  are 
to  change  it.  Ever  remember  that  /  am  not  sick. 
I  am  Life.  Life  manifests  just  as  perfectly  as  you, 
John  Smith,  let  it.  If  you  will  repress  it  by  think- 
ing disease  and  pain,  then  you  will  have  them.  Now 
you  have  forgotten  them  and  only  remember  that 
I  am  LIFE.  This  you  will  repeat  till  I  have  made 
your  body  over  anew:— I  AM  LIFE!  I  AM  LIFE! 

For  Discontent:— 

Now,  sir.  you  have  everything  you  desire.  Life  is 
yours  and  Life  contains  all.  You  are  Contentment 

For  Poverty:  — 

Well,  sir,  you  have  all  that  is.  You  have  Life  and 
all  that  Life  needs.  God  is  within  you.  God  is  all! 
Let  God  manifest  as  He  will.  Let  Life  manifest. 


46  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

Polarize  yourself  and  draw  what  you  desire.  Stop 
saying,  "I  am  poor."  Say,  "I  have  all.  I  am  rich, 
for  I  have  all  I  can  use."  Stop  this  economy.  It 
will  lead  you  to  the  poorhouse.  I  cannot  lead  you 
to  things  you  wish  when  you  fill  your  mind  with 
these  thoughts  of  poverty.  Hereafter,  keep  full  of 
Faith  in  the  Good.  Call  your  own  to  you  by  this 
Affirmation.  I  am  with  you  and  I  am  Power.  At- 
tend to  your  business  of  using  to  your  desire  what 
you  have.  Use  it  now.  It  is  my  business  to  bring 
more  when  this  is  gone. 

The  Affirmation,  MY  SUPPLY  IS  INFINITE,  will 
cure  all  poverty  when  it  becomes  Faith. 

For  Bad  Habits:- 

To  cure  any  bad  habit,  say  to  yourself  whenever  you 
treat  yourself  or  whenever  you  think  of  the  habit:— 
You  are  the  Master  of  Self.  You  do  just  what  you 
desire.  Tobacco  has  no  power  over  you.  (Or  beer, 
or  worry,  or  anger,  or  gossip,  or  fault-finding,  or 
argument,  or  talking  of  your  pains  or  troubles.  Use 
any  one  that  fits  the  case.)  You  are  temperate  in 
all  things,  for  I,  the  Soul,  now  guide  you.  Tell  your- 
self, sir:  "I  am  Master."  Affirm:— "This  old  habit 
has  passed  from  me.  I  love  the  good.  Good  fills 
me  so  full  that  there  is  in  me  no  place  for  anything 
else.  I  am  happy  for  old  things  are  passed  away." 


For  Fear:— 

Fear  is  the  one  cause  of  all  the  evils  of  life.  Use 
this  formula  in  its  thought,  changing  the  words  to 
suit : — 

I  am  fearless.  All  is  good.  No  evil  can  come  to 
me.  I  am  courage.  I  am  guided  from  within.  I 
can  make  no  mistake.  I  have  banished  all  fear.  I 
trust  myself.  I  have  confidence  in  myself.  I  rely 
upon  myself.  I  am  equal  to  any  emergency.  There 


BUT  SUGGESTION. 


47 


is  for  me  protection  at  all  times.  No  evil  can  come 
near  my  dwelling.  I  am  fearless. 

Post-Hypnotic  Self-Suggestions:— 

Have  you  forgotten  something?  Then  say:  "I 
know.  Be  still.  It  will  come  to  me."  Then  forget 
that  you  wish  to  know  and  LET  it  fall  into  the  mind. 
There  is  something  you  wish  to  decide  upon  or  wish 
to  think  of;  say:  "When  I  awaken  in  the  morning 
I  shall  know  what  to  do;  I  shall  know  what  to  say; 
I  shall  know  what  to  write;  I  shall  have  the  solution 
in  my  mind."  By  these  Post-Hypnotic  Suggestions, 
you  may  call  up  from  the  subconscious  anything 
you  desire. 


L'Envoi. 

For  the  present,  we  part  company.  The  subject  is 
only  opened.  We  have  much  to  learn,  much  to 
Demonstrate.  I  promised  to  do  a  part.  It  is  done. 
I  have  given  you  the  Key.  It  is  yours  to  use.  I 
know  the  treasure  that  awaits  you.  Congratulating 
you  on  your  POSSESSION,  I  leave  you  to  the  joy 
of  Self-Control  attained  through  Self-Suggestion. 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  March  21,  1902. 


Addenda™  Fourth  Edition 


PERSONAL  LIBERTY  INCLUDES  PERSONAL 
RESPONSIBILITY. 

Two  tendencies  in  Man  demonstrate  in  the  realm  of  mind 
the  same  action  and  reaction,  the  same  balance,  that  we 
find  in  the  mechanical  forces.  And  since  Thought  is  Power 
we  must  find  every  so-called  natural,  mechanical  and  chem- 
ical law,  to  be  merely  laws  of  Mind.  We  shall  see  them 
exemplified  in  the  thoughts  and  actions  of  mankind,  as  we 
have  heretofore  found  them  in  the  cruder  vibrations,  termed 
matter. 

Since  we  deal  with  Thought  as  a  form  of  Eternal  Energy 
we  look  for  its  Laws  and  its  directive  power  in  Man  only,  where 
it  is  manifest.  We  study  the  laws  of  mechanics  in  ma- 
chines; of  chemistry  in  chemicals;  of  gravity  in  the  forms 
about  us.  In  like  manner  we  are  to  study  the  laws  of 
Thought  in  ourselves.  When  I  say  "ourselves,"  I  mean 
that  I  must  study  myself,  and  you  must  study  yourself. 
The  only  way  to  arrive  at  truth  is  to  study  in  the  present 
tense,  indicative  mode,  the  personal  pronoun — "I."  The 
teacher  of  "NOW"  PHILOSOPHY  teaches  this  way.  He 
reasons  from  these  Affirmations: — I  AM  THOUGHT.  I 
STUDY  THOUGHT  WHEN  I  STUDY  MYSELF.  I  KNOW 
ONLY  MYSELF.  IN  STUDYING  MYSELF  I  AM  STUDY- 
ING ALL  THAT  IS.  WHEN  I  KNOW  MYSELF  I  KNOW 
ALL  THAT  IS. 

Only  those  who  understand  and  live  in  this  thought  have 
arrived  at  Self-Control.  Those  who  live  after  this  Philo- 
sophy have  conquered  Fate. 

The  boasted  personal  liberty  of  which  we  hear  so  much, 
is  at  present  largely  a  myth,  a  dream.  When  it  comes,  it 
comes  through  a  study  of  Eternal  Energy.  As  long  as  one 
studies  external  forces  only,  he  finds  them  power,  and  think- 
ing he  must,  he  submits  to  them.  But  deeper  study  teaches 
that  there  is  a  force  in  Man,  that  can,  through  direction, 
control  external  forces.  Circumstances  control  him  who 
does  not  know  how  to  control  them. 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  49 

Here  we  have  the  thought,  and  the  word  the  world  is  seek- 
ing— CHOICE.  Can  we  choose  in  any  degree?  Certainly. 
Each  person  realizes  and  exercises  very  early  in  life  the 
power  of  choice.  Is  it  limited?  By  what?  If  limited, 
I  am  not  free  and  personal  liberty  is  a  myth;  I  am  like  plant 
and  bird  subject  to  Law  and  am  in  the  hands  of  a  Fate  in- 
exorable and  merciless.  If  choice  is  not  limited,  then  I  am 
free  to  the  extent  that  I  exercise  that  choice.  Nay,  if  choice 
is  limitless,  can  I  avoid  its  exercise? 

One  or  the  other  of  these  positions  each  one  must  take.  The 
masses  do  claim  limitations.  They  prate  of  independ- 
ence, personal  liberty  and  individuality,  but  they  do  this 
from  the  narrow  thought  of  freedom  from  governmental, 
priestly  or  industrial  and  personal  interference.  They  carry 
not  the  thought  into  the  real  realm  of  Cause;  into  the  real 
world  of  Power.  They  stop  in  the  world  of  effects  as  mani- 
fest in  civil  and  social  laws;  business  and  economic  methods. 
This  is  no  more  liberty,  than  the  condition  of  the  freed 
Russian  serf  is  liberty.  These  serfs  are  still  clamoring  for 
liberty. 

My  writings  under  name  of  "Soul  Culture"  and  "Now  Philo- 
sophy," are  written  from  the  affirmation  that  each  indi- 
vidual is  absolutely  free  to  choose,  and  is  because  of  this 
freedom,  absolutely  responsible  for  his  life.  No  circum- 
stance or  person,  or  power,  is  responsible  for  his  health, 
happiness  or  success,  but  himself.  I  know  this  is  denied 
consciously  constantly  by  the  great  majority,  and  this  is 
the  main  reason  why  I  proclaim  it.  That  it  is  also  denied 
unconsciously  in  practice,  denied  by  many  who  hold  to  it 
in  theory,  I  also  know.  Few  even  of  New  Thought  teachers 
have  reached  the  point  of  sticking  to  the  freedom  they 
affirm. 

This  cry  for  liberty,  this  boast  of  independence,  is  the  cry 
of  the  Unfolding  Soul  for  larger  expression.  The  excuse, 
reason,  or  apology  for  not  manifesting  our  desire  is  Nature's 
ratchet,  which  holds  us  from  slipping  back  when  we  have 
in  liberty  gained  a  notch.  But  are  we  to  stop  where  we  are? 
Restlessness  and  pain  of  circumstances  soon  send  us  for- 
ward a  notch  because  we  CHOOSE  to  go  on,  rather  than 
to  suffer  under  limitations.  What  Man  wills  not  to  endure, 
he  cures.  Choosing,  he  moves  in  the  line  of  least  resistance 
and  ever  toward  liberty.  Liberty,  the  only  possible  liberty, 
is  opportunity  to  express  that  which  he  chooses  to  express. 
Through  such  expression  he  unfolds  into  consciousness  of 
himself;  into  consciousness  of  his  power  to  be  and  to  do. 
Man  excuses  his  failures  in  any  line  by  laying  it  to  some  cir- 
cumstance, person,  law,  lack,  or  place.  Some  excuse  is 
found,  and  rarely  is  the  true  one  given.  This  fact  I  would 
deeply  impress  on  the  mind  of  my  reader, —  Never  as  long 
as  a  person  gives  an  excuse  for  not  doing  will  he  ever  find  the 


50  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

power  to  do.  An  excuse  is  the  recognition  of  a  Power  some- 
where manifesting  in  circumstances,  which  is  more  power- 
ful than  the  person,  and  to  which  he  must  submit.  To  say, 
"I  could  not  because  circumstances  would  not  admit,"  or 
"Because  I  could  not  conquer  circumstances,"  is  to  say, 
"I  am  slave.  I  am  not  powerful  enough  to  do  as  I  choose." 
But  the  fact  is  one  always  does  as  he  chooses  to  do.  He 
chose  to  submit.  Choice  he  cannot  avoid.  He  chose  to 
be  a  slave  because  he  thinks  there  is  a  power  too  strong  to 
conquer.  It  is  easier  to  submit  than  to  contend.  The  true 
reason  one  should  give  himself  for  any  lack  of  expression  is 
"I  realized  that  I  had  not  developed  my  consciousness  of 
power  so  as  to  overcome  at  this  time,  and  simply  retired  to 
learn  more  of  myself  as  the  overcoming  power!"  No  one 
thought  is  more  needed  today  than  this  of  a  personal  reali- 
zation of  the  connection  between  the  individual  and  the 
Universal,  which  leads  one  to  hold  self  responsible  for  con- 
duct. 

The  realization  that  "each  person  is  an  inlet  to  the  Divine 
mind  and  to  the  whole  of  that  mind"  is  the  key  to  Power. 
The  only  reason  for  unhappiness  and  the  failure  it  produces, 
is  that  one  does  not  choose  to  exercise  this  power,  which  he 
is  by  Divine  right.  "I  can't!"  is  the  prison  of  millions. 
Self-hypnotized  through  the  Auto-Suggestion  of  a  belief 
in  Power  outside  themselves;  by  the  fear  of  and  submission 
to  circumstances. 

There  is  but  One  Power  and  each  person  is  IT. 
This  desire  to  excuse  oneself  for  submission  to  an  external 
power  that  is  greater  than  interior  power,  leads  to  the  cre- 
ation of  the  gods  and  devils  in  all  theologies;  leads  to  philo- 
sophies that  weaken  and  encourage  the  non-doing  of  mil- 
lions; giving  them  excuses  to  languish  in  conditions  they 
could  throw  off,  would  they  affirm  Power,  and  thus  enjoy 
the  blessing  of  liberty. 

But  a  caution  here.  Your  business  is  NOT  to  direct  or 
save  your  neighbor;  is  not  to  go  out  and  reform  the  world; 
is  not  revolution.  You  are  to  recognize  within  yourself 
the  power  to  direct  your  own  life;  to  make  through  your 
thought  a  personal  evolution;  that  others  seeing  what  you 
do  for  yourself,  may  learn  also  to  do  for  themselves. 
Personal  gods  and  personal  devils  have  disappeared  from 
the  thought  of  liberal  teachers  and  thinkers,  but  the  Prin- 
ciple which  created  them  still  remains,  in  the  desire  and 
tendency  to  lay  blame  for  conditions  and  conduct  on  some 
external  cause.  This  tendency  finds  expression  even  among 
some  of  our  foremost  New  Thought  teachers.  Humanity 
has  not  yet  reached  the  plane  of  Self-Reliance.  No  teach- 
ing is  more  needed  today  than  self-assertion.  Beyond  all 
other  books,  in  the  great  mass  of  New  Thought  literature, 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  51 

is  Emerson's  essay  on  "Self-Reliance,"  in  its  power  to 
awaken  the  individual  to  a  consciousness  of  personal  power 
and  of  personal  responsibility.  "Never  strike  sail  to  a 
fear!"  is  one  of  his  strong  and  needed  admonitions.  Out 
of  our  fears  all  limitations  come.  Fear  shapes  all  the  devils, 
and  creates  all  the  evils. 

The  disappearance  of  devils  has  given  us  much  that  is  worse, 
because  it  is  more  subtle,  and  is  the  creation  of  a  more  de- 
veloped intellect. 

Devils  have  become  "evil  spirits,"  millions  of  individuals 
where  once  one  only  was  prowling  about,  and  obsession  is 
an  excuse  for  lack  of  personal  expression,  lack  of  self-control. 
Evil  spirits  however  were  too  crude  for  many  so  we  have 
this  modified  into  "malignant  magnetism."  This  is  the 
excuse  among  a  large  class  of  people  who  repeat  "All  is 
good!  There  is  no  evil!"  Such  have  not  reached  the  place 
where  they  accept  personal  responsibility;  must  have  some 
scape-goat  for  their  illness  and  failures. 
We  have  another  still  more  subtle  excuse  and  one  that  be- 
cause of  the  fact  of  telepathy  is  harder  to  remove.  That 
is  "Evil  thoughts!"  So  convenient  is  it,  to  excuse  any 
ill  doing  by  saying,  "Somebody  sent  me  an  evil  thought! 
A  friend  saw  a  lady  slip  on  the  ice  one  morning.  Several 
days  later  he  met  her  and  asked,  "Did  it  hurt  you  when  you 
slipped  the  other  morning?"  He  was  startled  by  the  reply, 
"O,  I  knew  some  one  sent  me  an  evil  thought." 
Another  large  class  of  believers  have  a  standing  excuse  when 
they  suffer  any  ill  condition  in  this  expression: — "I  am 
working  out  my  Karma!"  A  thought  far  more  repulsive 
to  a  freeman  and  thinker,  than  the  old  excuse,  "The  devil 
made  me  do  it!"  Very  many  of  our  New  Thought  books 
otherwise  very  fine,  are  so  vitiated  with  this  negative  and 
self-destructive  thought,  that  I  cannot  recommend  them. 
What,  I  a  child  of  the  Divine  limited  to  re-birth  after  re- 
birth and  suffering  in  one  incarnation  for  what  I  did  long 
ages  ago?  Too  puerile,  and  would  make  one  laugh  if  the 
consequences  did  not  make  one  weep.  Self-respect,  self- 
reliance  and  self-conquest  are  impossible  under  such  a  thought. 
No  wonder  India  has  submitted  to  English  tryanny  under 
this  dominion.  The  American  people  would  never  rise 
from  control  of  trusts  and  monopolies  did  they  believe  in 
Karma;  a  theory  of  a  primitive  and  early  people  who  car- 
ried with  it  also  the  thought  of  transmigration  of  souls, 
which  seems  too  repugnant  to  a  twentieth  century  theo- 
sophist  to  teach.  The  sense  of  self-responsibility,  the  pres- 
ent most  needed  development,  is  hindered  by  all  these 
theories,  which  are  used  as  excuses  for  lack  of  self-control. 
Out  of  this  desire,  belief  and  fear  arises  the  cry  against 
hypnotism.  Strange  is  the  fact,  that  otherwise  fine  teachers 
along  New  Thought  lines,  both  in  journals  and  books,  are 


52  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

warning  their  readers  against  hypnotism.  They  repeat 
statements  like  these,  "To  yield  your  will  to  another  is 
dangerous!"  "To  give  up  one's  self  to  the  control  of  another 
is  an  evil!"  Such  statements  tend  to  keep  alive  this  old 
thought  of  excuse  and  to  increase  the  old  fears  and  weak- 
ness. Such  statements  are  not  Truth.  They  are  born  in 
the  old  thought.  No  one  who  has  ever  experimented  with 
Suggestion,  no  one  who  feels  it  his  sacred  duty  to  his  fellows 
to  teach  only  what  he  knows  by  personal  experience,  will 
ever  repeat  the  folly  of  teaching  "the  possibility  of  yielding 
the  control  of  one's  life  or  one's  thought  to  another;"  will 
ever  talk  of  "putting  a  person  under  control  of  another's 
will."  Only  the  will  of  the  individual  can  influence  his  life. 
I  can  obey  my  will.  Another's  will  can  become  mine  only 
by  my  choice.  I  can  make  it  mine,  or  I  can  refuse.  (See 
p.  24.)  I  have  the  same  power  of  choice  in  regard  to  every 
person  that  the  miss  has  to  accept  or  decline  a  proposal  of 
marriage.  Nowadays  she  often  claims  she  was  hypnotized. 
She  acted,  as  every  person  always  does,  under  her  own 
choice.  She  decided,  and  all  the  influence  any  person  can 

Cossibly  have  over  another  and  no  more,  the  young  man 
ad  over  her,  and  that  is,  he  presented  inducements,  and 
she  equally  influenced  him. 

Recently  a  young  doctor  used  to  bet  on  a  horse-race  the 
money  intrusted  to  him  by  a  friend,  and  lost;  he  then  claimed 
he  was  influenced  to  do  so  by  two  sharpers.  The  excuse  is 
worse  than  the  loss  of  money,  because  it  is  an  admission 
of  lack  of  manhood;  tells  us  that  he  has  not  developed  power 
of  self-control.  Loss  of  money,  or  friends,  or  anything  is 
not  equal  to  this  cowardice. 

The  operator  has  no  power  to  will  his  subjects.  Hypnotism 
is  no  excuse  for  any  action.  In  Kansas  I  had  a  fine  subject, 
and  one  evening  when  he  was  taking  from  a  glass  of  water 
anything  I  suggested,  I  said,  "There  is  beer  in  the  glass;" 
he  would  not  touch  it.  When  I  insisted  he  woke  with  a 
start  as  though  he  had  been  hit.  I  tried  to  make  some 
good  subjects  pick  some  pockets.  Three  refused,  saying, 
"I  won't  steal;"  I  could  not  make  them.  The  fourth  took 
the  watch  from  the  man's  pocket,  and  when  fully  awake  I 
asked  him  what  he  did  and  he  replied: — "I  took  the  watch!" 
Why?  "Because  you  told  me  to,  and  I  knew  it  was  only  a 
trick!"  He  was  under  control  of  the  thought,  but  not  un- 
conscious. Dr.  Albert  Moll  of  Berlin,  one  of  the  best  of 
European  authorities,  when  in  this  country  said  in  an  in- 
terview published  in  the  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  Star: — "It  is 
doubtful  if  any  serious  crime  was  ever  done  while  under  this 
influence.  The  weight  of  authority  is  against  it!"  Later 
students  deny  its  possibility. 

Certainly  were  it  one  thousandth  part  as  baneful  as  even 
some  New  Thought  teachers  think,  were  there  a  shadow  of 


BUT  SUGGESTION. 


53 


fact  that  would  warrant  the  charge  of  evil,  it  would  be  easy 
to  prove  its  harmfulness.  There  are  those  who  say  it  would 
be  an  evil  were  one  to  yield  himself  to  the  will  of  another. 
Truel  But  can  one  so  yield?  Does  one  ever  so  yield? 
Have  you  any  cases  of  such  yielding?  Not  one. 
In  his  work  upon  "Suggestive  Therapeutics,"  Dr.  Schrenk- 
Notzing  of  Germany,  gives  the  results  of  his  investigations 
among  the  hospitals  of  Europe,  and  though  he  reports  the 
results  of  many  thousand  experiments,  he  has  never  found 
a  single  case  of  the  harmfulness  of  Suggestion,  even  when 
carried  to  hpynosis  (which  is  merely  sleep  under  Suggestion) 
even  when  it  is  many  times  practiced  upon  the  same  indi- 
vidual. It  will  be  noticed  that  among  the  authorities  he 
quotes  as  thinking  "it  possible"  that  it  may  be  used  for 
harm,  he  gives  not  one  instance  where  it  has  so  been  used. 
All  positive  evidence  is  to  its  safety.  Any  evil  effects  are 
hypothetical;  merely  "may  be";  are  but  opinions,  and  not 
demonstrations. 

That  Suggestion,  even  to  complete  hypnosis,  ever  wrought 
harm  to  a  single  person,  is  yet  to  be  proved.  There  has 
never  yet  been  such  a  case  reported.  The  conscious  use  of 
this  power,  cannot  work  evil.  On  the  contrary  every  person 
should  learn  voluntarily  and  consciously  to  receive  Sug- 
gestions, as  this  is  the  only  road  to  Self-Control.  Till  one 
can  do  this,  he,  or  she,  is  liable  to  receive  Suggestions  from 
the  outside  and  accept  them  as  his  own,  unconscious  of  their 
origin.  New  Thought  teachers  who  are  so  afraid  of  Hypnot- 
ism, are  themselves  working  under  the  one  phase  of  Sug- 
gestion which  is  dangerous  to  happiness,  i.  e.,  Self-Sugges- 
tion of  fear  and  ignorance,  which  imposes  limitations  upon 
the  Human  Soul  and  is  the  one  danger  to  avoid. 
Suggestion  is  an  ever  present  factor  in  life.  Hypnosis  is 
but  one  of  millions  of  phenomena  resulting  from  Sugges- 
tion; it  is  but  sleep  under  the  influence  of  the  Suggestion 
of  sleep.  There  is  but  one  guard  against  any  evil  effects 
through  Suggestions  whether  one  is  sleeping  or  waking, 
and  that  guard  is  CONSCIENCE.  What  is  right,  is  the 
decision  of  the  reasoning  faculties  from  experience  of 
training. 

Conscience  says,  "DO  RIGHT!"  Only  the  individual  him- 
self can  violate  conscience  and  because  he  wills  to  do  so. 
Who  is  false  to  conscience  is  never  safe  anywhere.  Who 
is  true  to  conscience,  who  always  does  what  he  considers 
right,  can  never  be  led  astray.  There  is  absolutely  no  pos- 
sibility of  any  person  doing  wrong  save  under  his,  or  her, 
own  Auto-Suggestion.  Note  this  well  —  No  one  ever  does 
anything  save  under  his  own  Auto-Suggestion  and  he  can  re- 
ceive no  Suggestion  to  convert  into  an  Auto-Suggestion, 
which  is  antagonistic  to  Conscience,  for  Conscience  is  not 
amenable  either  to  reason  or  will.  It  is  "The  Voice  of  God 


54  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

in  the  Soul."  We  can  will  ourselves  to  accept  for  a  time 
a  thought  that  is  not  reasonable  at  the  request  of  another, 
but  can  never  accept  a  thought  that  is  repellent  to  con- 
science. Every  New  Thought  teacher  and  healer  should 
know  this.  Experience  should  teach  them,  that  till  Con- 
science assents  to  their  instruction,  there  is  no  action,  no 
recovery. 

That  it  is  impossible  to  cause  a  person,  even  in  the  deepest 
hypnosis,  to  violate  his  conscience,  or  to  do  that  against  which 
he  has  set  his  will,  is  demonstrated  in  the  experience  of 
every  practical  hpynotist. 

All  experts  tell  us  this.  Teachers  who  fear  the  influence  of 
Hypnotism,  are  as  far  off  their  base  as  are  the  clergy  who 
prate  of  the  evils  of  the  theatre,  having  never  seen  one. 
Not  knowing  the  real  evils,  imaginary  ones  are  preached 
against.  Men  of  straw  are  built  up  and  pulled  down  by 
them.  They  see  evils  of  hypnotism  where  there  are  none, 
and  the  real  dangers  of  the  involuntary,  unconscious  hyp- 
notism of  authority,  personal  influence,  money,  dress,  fashion, 
public  opinion  and  fear  are  ignored. 

I  have  so  many  times  come  up  against  the  will,  or  the  moral 
standard  of  a  subject,  that  without  hesitation,  I  declare 
that  under  no  circumstance  can  one  person  so  influence  another 
that  he  will  do  anything  he  thinks  is  wrong,  or  against  which  he 
has  willed. 

Unity  of  wills  is  an  absolute  necessity  to  the  success  of  the 
Suggestionist.  He  is  compelled  to  move  in  the  line  of  the 
moral  standard  of  his  subject.  The  evils  of  false  education 
are  laid  at  the  door  of  Circumstances.  Parents  and  teachers 
neglect  to  fix  moral  Principles  in  a  child;  he  goes  out  into 
the  world  without  Principle.  He  has  had  a  lot  of  "don'ts," 
and  a  lot  of  arbitrary  rules,  but  no  fixed  Principle  of  Right. 
He  is  taught  in  many  cases  what  to  do,  but  is  not  taught 
Self-Control,  which  alone  is  temperance,  and  when  he  be- 
comes drunk  it  is  laid  to  the  saloonkeeper.  It  is  as  easy  to 
do  right  as  it  is  to  do  wrong  to  one  who  has  been  taught  to 
hold  himself  to  blame;  who  has  been  taught  that  he  JIS 
POWER  to  say,  "NO!" 

False  are  all  the  reports  in  the  press  of  hypnotized  persons 
coming  to  evil.  Hypnotism  cannot  become  the  scapegoat 
for  the  weak.  The  criminal  cannot  excuse  himself  by  claim- 
ing he  was  hypnotized.  These  are  subterfuges  and  when 
accepted  destroy  character.  What  is  done  is  in  line  with 
one's  moral  development,  or  it  would  never  have  been  done. 
He  wished  to. 

This  doctrine  is  not  relished  by  society.  But  it  is  Truth. 
The  philosophy  I  teach  allows  no  person  to  shirk  the  re- 
sponsibility of  Character;  of  controlling  by  choice  his  own 
life.  "Thou  art  the  man!"  thunders  "Soul  Culture!"  You 
can!  You  will  whatever  you  do!  You  ARE  POWER  to 


BUT  SUGGESTION. 


55 


m 

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will,  and  to  do,  whatever  you  desire  to  will  and  to  do.  From 
a  long  experience  I  assert  that  a  knowledge  of  Suggestion 
and  its  power  is  the  ONE  knowledge  that  will  bring  re- 
demption from  the  tyranny  of  so-called  evil.  Freedom 
comes  alone  when  one  FEELS,  that  he  or  she,  is  superior 
to  any  and  all  conditions  of  life. 

I  have  dealt  with  these  questions  on  pp  31,  32,  of  this  book. 
Because  of  the  wide-spread  report  in  the  daily  press  of  the 
evils  of  hypnotism,  I  use  this  space  in  this  new  edition  to 
emphasize  what  I  have  already  said.  I  will  give  a  few  more 
authorities  and  incidents. 

Prof.  A.  E.  Carpenter  told  me  that  one  of  his  best  subjects 
would  not  remove  his  coat  one  evening.  He  made  repeated 
trials  and  failed.  After  the  entertainment  was  over,  he 
asked  the  young  man  why  he  would  not  remove  his  coat. 
The  reply  was,  "I  had  no  time  to  change  my  shirt  before  I 
came  to  the  hall.  My  over-shirt  was  torn  and  I  decided 
that  I  would  not  take  my  coat  off  and  show  the  red  flannel 
shirt  through  the  tears!"  Professor  Carpenter  has  pro- 
bably as  extensive  experience  as  any  living  person;  he  says 
in  his  "Plain  Instructions,"-  -'The  operator  should  remem- 

J- that  it  is  the  subject's  condition  that  determines  the  suc- 
s  of  the  experiment,  and  not  any  peculiar  magnetic  or 
:ult  power  that  he,  the  operator,  possesses.  That  is,  if 
the  sitter  is  in  a  subjective  condition  he  will  respond  to  the 
Suggestion,  and  further,  that  the  sitter  goes  into  this  con- 
dition himself,  the  operator  does  not  put  him  into  it." 
Dr.  Schrenck-Notzing  in  speaking  of  the  results  of  his  in- 
vestigations among  the  practitioners  of  Europe,  gives  his 
opinion  in  the  following  extracts: — 

"The  evidence  mentioned  is  augmented  by  the  wide  ex- 
perience of  Forel,  Moll  and  numerous  other  experimenters, 
all  of  which  leads  to  the  conclusion  that  with  proper  indi- 
vidualization  of  hypnotism  for  therapeutic  purposes  it  is 
devoid  of  any  disadvantage." 

He  gives  this  conclusion  as  the  result  of  his  investigations 
in  the  "Introduction"  to  his  work  on  "Suggestive  Thera- 
peutics," quoting  these  authorities: 

"Ringer  says,  after  reviewing  210  cases  in  his  practice,  that 
he  has  never  seen  hypnosis  have  an  injurious  effect. 
"Van  Renterghem  and  Von  Eeden,  whose  clinic  I  visited, 
likewise  testify  to  the  innocuousness  of  therapeutic  hypno- 
sis, and  were  able  to  add  nearly  1,000  cases  to  the  414  cases 
cited. 

"Wetterstrand,  according  to  his  work,  has  subjected  3,200 
persons  to  hypnotic  procedure,  and  induced  hypnosis  60,- 
000  times  without  observing  any  injurious  results. 
"Von  Corval  gives  from  his  own,  as  well  as  from  the  experi- 
ence of  others  in  general,  his  conclusion  that  hypnosis, 
correctly  employed,  is  unaccompanied  by  any  danger. 


56  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

"Minde  thinks  all  dangers  may  be  avoided  by  proper  care. 
"Craft-Ebing  says:  Treatment  by  hypnotic  suggestion  is 
innocuous  when  it  is  scientifically  employed.' 

"Preyer  says:'It  can  have  no  injurious  effect  when  skill- 
fully used.' 

"Liebeault  of  Nancy,  who  during  thirty  years  has  hypno- 
tized 10,000  persons,  some  of  them  more  than  100  times, 
says  with  proper  precautions  he  has  never  observed  unto- 
ward effects  follow  hypnotism. 

"Professor  Bernheim,  from  his  observations  on  several 
thousand  patients,  has  lately  expressed  himself  as  follows: — 
'Suggestion  often  cures;  when  it  does  not  cure  it  ameliorates; 
and  if  it  does  not  benefit  it  is  still  harmless.' 
"Grossman  found  the  legend  of  its  dangers  unconfirmed. 
"Professor  Hirt  of  Breslau,  made  in  eight  months,  experi- 
ments for  therapeutic  purposes  on  598  persons.  More  than 
4,000  sittings  have  proven  to  him  that  hypnosis  is  never 
accompanied  by  harmful  effects,  even  when  frequently  in- 
duced in  the  same  individual." 

Von    Notzing    himself   in    his  "Introduction"    says: — "Ob- 
servations of  hypnotism  on  more  than  300  persons,  of  whom 
many  were  hypnotized  more  than  100  times  and  some  200 
or  300  times,  leads    me  to  believe    in  the  harmlessness  of 
therapeutic  suggestion." 
And  in  the  body  of  his  book,  he  says: — 
"If  other  means  are  not  successful,  then  failure  to  use  sug- 
gestive therapeutics  out  of  prejudice  and  ignorance  must 
be  regarded  as  inexcusable  negligence  on  the  part  of  the 
physician  toward  his  patients." 

At  the  International  Medical  Congress  held  at  Moscow, 
Russia,  in  August,  1897,  Prof.  Lombroso,  of  Turin,  read  a 
paper  that  created  great  enthusiasm.  In  it  he  declared 
that: — 

"We  ought  to  study  carefully  all  physical  states,  including 
hypnosis,  for  discoveries  which  this  may  lead  to  are  in- 
calculable in  their  importance,  and  the  benefits  to  the  ho- 
man  race  beyond  our  power  to  forsee  or  imagine." 
I  condense  some  statements  of  Bernheim,  one  of  Europe's 
leading  scientists,  along  psychical  lines: — He  says  he  has 
seen  Hypnotic  Suggestion  used  in  the  same  case  for  several 
years,  seances  and  treatments  being  given  each  successive 
day  and  no  harm  resulting;  on  the  contrary,  he  found  that 
each  and  every  case  had  greatly  improved  during  that  long 
and  constant  subjection  to  Hypnotism.  Hypnotic  Sug- 
gestion has  been  very  successfully  used  for  years  in  the  alms 
houses,  orphan  asylums  and  penal  institutions  of  France — 
in  correction  of  diseases  and  habits  in  adults  and  the  vices 
and  habits  of  children.  There  is  the  best  evidence  and 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  57- 

freatest  need  in  the  world  for  the  use  of  Hypnotism  and 
uggestion  in  the  capacity  of  curative,  moral  and  educa- 
tional agents. 

Prof.  T.  J.  Hudsen,  author  of  "The  Law  of  Psychic  Phenom- 
ena" in  a  magazine  article  said: — 

"That  hypnotism  and  its  chief  hand-maiden,  suggestion,  have 
been  proved  to  be  an  unalloyed  blessing  to  millions  of  the 
human  race  cannot  be  successfully  controverted.  No  in- 
telligent observer  of  the  subject  who  has  made  an  honest 
and  unprejudiced  investigation  of  it  will  deny  its  value  as 
a  therapeutic  agent  or  gainsay  the  fact  that  it  has  been  the 
means  of  restoring  to  health  untold  numbers  of  otherwise 
incurable  sufferers  from  physical  and  mental  maladies.  Its 
value  as  an  anesthetic  in  surgery  has  been  demonstrated 
by  the  profession  in  many  notable  instances,  and  it  is  thought 
that  when  its  laws  are  better  understood  it  will  be  found 
to  be  an  agent  of  universal  application  for  the  inhibition 
of  pain  in  surgical  operations.  Its  value  as  a  means  for  the 
eradication  of  habits  of  drunkenness,  as  well  as  of  many 
other  habits  equally  destructive  to  health  and  reason,  no 
one  who  has  given  the  subject  the  slightest  attention  will 
seriously  question.  Its  availability  as  an  auxiliary  to  the 
usual  process  of  education  is  rapidly  becoming  known 
throughout  the  world.  And  so  is  its  value  as  a  means  of 
training  children  to  correct  habits  of  mind  and  body,  and 
above  all  of  eradicating  from  the  human  mind  the  tendency 
to  immorality  and  crime." 

It  would  be  easy  to  extend  this  list  of  authorities  many 
pages,  but  to  one  who  has  gripped  its  Principle  of  Sugges- 
tion as  laid  down  in  this  book,  there  is  little  need,  and  I 
will  close  with  some  paragraphs  from  expert  authority: — 
the  article  in  the  Encyclopedia  Americana,  written  by 
Hamilton  Osgood,  M.  D.  See  how  closely  his  thought, 
printed  in  1905,  tallies  with  that  of  this  book,  printed  two 
years  before: 

"The  word  hypnotism  is  generally  and  largely  misunder- 
stood and  misused.  For  example,  if  a  person  seems  to  be 
wholly  influenced  by  another,  it  is  commonly  said  that  he 
has  been  hypnotized.  This  is  a  great  error.  The  word 
hypnotism  means  putting  a  person  to  sleep  and  means  noth- 
ing else.  If  an  individual  seems  to  be  subjected  to  another 
in  the  waking  state  it  should  be  said  that  he  is  unduly  in- 
fluenced. He  is  not  hypnotized.  That  would  mean  that 
he  was  asleep.  The  means  by  which  hypnotism  is  used  is 
"suggestion."  A  person  may  be  influenced  by  suggestion 
in  the  waking  state,  for  suggestion  is  a  great  force  in  daily 
life.  As  connected  with  hypnotism,  however,  suggestion  is 
the  expression  of  an  idea  or  combination  of  ideas  which 
becomes  impressed  upon  the  mind  of  the  somnolent  subject 
to  whom  it  is  addressed.  Conscious  or  unconscious  results 


58  NOT  HYPNOTISM, 

are  sure  to  follow.  This  explanation  sums  up  the  mean- 
ing, use,  and  results  of  suggestion  as  applied  to  hypnotism 
and  the  hypnotic  state.  If  a  subject  be  awake  he  can, 
according  to  the  strength  of  his  will  and  desire,  control  to  a 
greater  or  lesser  degree  the  effect  of  a  suggestion  which 
he  has  received.  *  *  *  * 

"In  the  popular  mind  exists  the  belief  that  this  form  of 
treatment  is  attended  by  danger,  that  the  patient  once  hyp- 
notized is  thereafter  under  control  of  the  operator,  even  at 
a  distance,  that  the  will  is  weakened,  etc.  This  is  all  a  mis- 
take. No  person  can  be  hypnotized  unless  he  is  willing. 
No  person  can  be  hypnotized  at  a  distance,  unless  by  tele- 
phone, or  if  he  be  a  good  and  willing  subject,  by  letter; 
and  the  patient  must  first  have  been  hypnotized  by  the 
operator  at  some  previous  time.  Otherwise  the  operator 
cannot  influence  him  at  a  distance  in  the  slightest  degree. 
The  will  is  not  only  not  weakened,  but  there  is  no  other  exist- 
ing treatment  which  can  so  strengthen  the  will  as  can  hypnotic 
suggestion.  *  *  *  * 

"It  is  an  absolutely  safe  and  beneficent  form  of  aid.  It 
may  not  always  bring  relief,  but  never  in  the  hands  of  a 
competent  operator  has  it  done  harm.  The  patient  will 
always  choose  the  operator  as  he  would  choose  a  surgeon. 
The  object  of  all  reliable  operators  in  the  use  of  hypnotic 
suggestion  is  the  relief  of  the  patient,  and  to  the  operator 
the  treatment  is  a  sacred  thing. 

"The  hypnotic  sleep  is  a  natural  sleep.  Those  who  claim 
that  it  is  not  natural  are  not  intelligent  in  the  matter,  and 
their  opinions  are  based  upon  pure  and  uninformed  theory. 
"As  has  been  shown  by  scores  of  thousands  of  cases,  treated 
by  brilliant  and  educated  physicians,  the  treatment  is  ab- 
solutely innocuous.  It  either  relieves  or  produces  a  neutral 
effect,  and  is  useful  in  a  multitude  of  ailments  which  baffle 
ordinary  means  of  relief." 

This  testimony  of  Dr.  Osgood  should  be  sufficient  to  settle 
the  matter,  and  to  more  than  balance,  in  an  unprejudiced 
mind,  all  possible  negative  testimony.  But  I  will  add  the 
testimony  of  the  greatest  medical  authority  in  the  United 
States,  Dr.  William  Osier,  formerly  of  the  John  Hopkins 
Medical  School  and  now  of  Oxford,  England.  In  the  article 
on  "Medicine"  in  the  "Encyclopedia  Americana,"  afterenum- 
erating  ameliorating  influences  upon  health,  he  says:  "To 
these  might  be  added  a  fourth,  which  in  some  sense  is  the 
most  natural  of  all;  for  it  has  been  practiced  in  ages  more  re- 
mote by  many  thousands  of  years,  than  the  suspicion  of 
either  of  the  others,  and  by  savages  almost  at  the  bottom  of 
the  human  scale;  that  is,  some  form  of  suggestion  or  hyp- 
nosia.  Yet  after  all,  the  psychical  method  has  always 
played  an  important  though  unrecognized  part  in  therapeu- 
tics. It  is  from  faith,  which  buoys  up  the  spirits,  sets  the 


BUT  SUGGESTION.  59 

nerves  playing  their  parts  without  disturbance,  that  a  large 
part  of  all  cures  arise.  Despondency,  or  lack  of  faith,  will 
often  sink  the  stoutest  constitution  almost  to  death's  door; 
faith  will  enable  a  bread-pill  or  a  spoonfull  of  clear  water  to 
do  almost  miracles  of  healing,  when  the  best  medicines  have 
been  given  over  in  despair.  The  basis  of  the  entire  profession  of 
medicine  is  faith  in  the  doctor  and  his  drugs  and  his  methods. 
"Its  (hypnotism)  possibilites  have  been  greatly  exaggerated, 
not  so  much  by  the  claims  of  persons  using  it,  as  by  the 
eager  credulity  of  the  public.  It  seems  not  to  create  a  new 
condition  of  sensitiveness  to  suggestion,  as  to  increase  what 
normally  exists.  Its  great  service  has  been  found  to  be 
in  various  affections  which  may  all  be  classed  as  of  the  ner- 
vous system:  Hysteria,  spasmodic  functional  complaints, 
children's  vicious  habits,  and  the  victims  of  the  drug  and 
alcohol  habits;  occasionally  in  childbirth  and  surgery." 

I  feel  that  my  purpose  in  this  book  which  is  to  show  the 
student  that  there  are  no  occult  or  hidden  or  mysterious 
powers  in  all  these  phenomena  has  been  accomplished.  That 
the  one  Law  of  Suggestion  is  at  work  in  them  all.  That 
the  old  ideas  and  theories  of  hypnotism  are  false.  It  is  not 
Hypnotism  but  Suggestion  that  is  cause.  We  are  through  this 
Law  learning  to  control  our  fate.  This  knowledge  will 
bless  mankind  by  removing  from  it  the  fear  which  now  pre- 
vents the  universal  application  of  Suggestion  and  Hypnosis 
for  the  cure  of  all  ills  of  "body,  mind  and  estate." 

Knowing  that  this  book  has  not  only  instructed  but  has 
stimulated  and  given  courage  to  thousands  already  for  the 
overcoming  of  Life's  unpleasant  conditions,  I  gladly  send 
forth  this  new  edition  to  continue  the  good  work  its  prede- 
cessors have  begun.  This  consciousness  that  I  have  a  place 
in  the  thought  and  love  of  so  many  encourages  me  still  to 
write  and  work.  In  Love  and  Truth  I  am  your  friend, 


HENRY  HARRISON  BROWN. 


San  Francisco,  March  15,  1906. 


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Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox  says:  "If  this  is  not  a  Spiritual  Age,  it  certainly  is 
an  age  of  Spiritual  Hunger." 

Prof.  Edgar  L.  Larkin,  of  Mt.  Lowe  Observatory,  says:  "The  most  won- 
derful things  are  being  discovered.  There  is  time  here  to  mention  one  only, 
that  amazing  thing,  Suggestion.  (Hundreds  of  swindling  fakirs  have  ap- 
peared, and  fanatical  sects,  who  have  abused  this  majestic  faculty  of  mind.) 
There  is  a  real  base  to  it;  it  is  a  complex  and  comprehensive  science." 

No  Short  Cuts 

You  should  ever  remember  that  there  are  no  short  cuts  to  knowledge. 

Get  the  Best  to  Start  With 

The  author  of  this  book,  HENRY  HARRISON  BROWN,  who  is  author  of  several 
other  instructive  books,  along  Mental  and  Spiritual  Lines,  ie  also  Editor 
of  NOW,  Teacher,  Lecturer,  and  Psychometrist.  There  is  no  doubt  but 
that  MR.  BROWN  is  one  of  the  great  Teachers  along  Mental  and  Spiritual 
lines.  His  books  have  received  praise  from  many  of  the  most  promi- 
nent writers. 

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nal (see  announcement  opposite  title  page),  he  recommends  the  student 
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HARRISON  BROWN,  24  pp.,  paper,  neatly  printed. 

The  booklet  teaches  the  individual  how  to  so  radiate  his  mental  forces  as 
to  cause  the  Dollar  to  feel  him,  love  him,  seek  him,  and  thus  draw  at  will, 
all  things  needed  for  his  unfoldment  from  the  Universal  Supply.  It  will 
help  you  to  rise  above  the  drudgery  of  enforced  labor  and  will  enable  you 
to  enter  upon  the  manifold  expressions  of  life  with  the  joy  and  spontaniety 
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O  HASHNU  HARA,  editor  of  Wings  of  Truth,  London,  Eng.,  writes:  "This 
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Readings  by  Psychometry 

Psychometry  is  Soul-Reading,  not  fortune-telling.  It  covers  all  the  psy- 
chic phenomena  usually  included  under  the  terms  Clairvoyance,  Inspira- 
tion, Healing,  Prophecy,  Etc.  It  is  the  art  of  reading  from  the  radiations 
each  person  or  thing  sends  out  from  itself.  We  are  thus  put  into  con- 
scioui  relations  with  the  Soul,  or,  as  it  is  now  popular  to  call  it,  with  the 
sub-conacious  life. 

ADVICE  IN  BUSINESS 

or  matters  of  life,  and  in  development  of  any  psychic  phase  will  be  given 
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of  advisers.  He  points  out  the  possibilities  of  the  individual  from  the 
soul-side  and  reveals  the  errors  in  the  thought-life.  These  readings  are 
priceless  to  the  recipient.  Hundreds  have  testified  to  this  fact.  Write 
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